"Interstellar" was an exception to Paramount Pictures' goal to stop releasing films on film stock and to distribute them only in digital format.According to Pamela McClintock of "The Hollywood Reporter", the initiative to project "Interstellar" on film stock would help preserve an endangered format, which was supported by Christopher Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and other filmmakers.