The making of Inception (2010) presented an immense technical challenge for the cast and crew, starting with comprehending director Christopher Nolan's complex dream-caper script.

Star Leonardo DiCaprio told The Hollywood Reporter that even he needed time to figure out the many layers of the story.

"I needed to know implicitly where we were," he said. "It got incredibly confusing at certain points in the beginning, but the more we talked, the more I understood."

DiCaprio, who played the lead role of Dominic Cobb, spent weeks combing through the script with Nolan.

"The work (DiCaprio) did on his character with Chris made the movie less of a puzzle and more of a story of a character audiences could relate to," said Emma Thomas, Nolan's wife and producing partner.

Other technical people on the film had their own puzzles to figure out when they had the first view of the top-secret script. Each were locked in a room on the Warners lot where the script was sealed for their first view.

Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin recalled the note in the script which called for the entire city of Paris collapsing and folding up. The note on the script for that scene simply said: "The city begins to fold in half."

"Working with Chris is absolutely great, but he's very challenging, too," Franklin said.

The film, which grossed $823 million (£618 million) at the worldwide box office, comes out on DVD on December 7.

Source: Press Release