Christopher Nolan has given us Batman, bent time in Inception and won armfuls of awards, so you'd expect his set secrets to be suitably grand. Instead, the internet recently became obsessed with a far humbler subject: chairs. A throwaway comment from Anne Hathaway suggested the director simply won't allow them, sparking a small online frenzy, a few accusations of tyranny and a lot of amused speculation. As it turns out, the truth is rather more mundane than the memes. Here's the full, slightly silly story behind Nolan's supposed war on seating.