Terence Stamp, the renowned actor who played Gereral Zod in the original Superman back in 1979, made headlines when a story came out that he had struck up a conversation with some Superman fans in the bathroom of a movie theater before going to see Man of Steel. But while Stamp was instantly recognizable to fans, producer Christopher Nolan got to enjoy the film all by his lonesome.

According to THR.com, Nolan not only snuck into his own movie but he went virtually unnoticed by anyone in attendance. The real question is what would you do if you went to see Man of Steel and ended up sitting next to the man who created what you were about to see?

Act nonchalant, be cool, act nonchalant.

Nolan reportedly snuck into the film with his wife, fellow producer Emma Thomas, and his kids. There’s more than a few things to take away from this story, the main one being that Nolan is still clearly a supporter of old school cinema and is not going to let his kids rope him into seeing the film in 3-D.

“The truth is, I think it’s a misnomer to call it 3-D versus 2-D. The whole point of cinematic imagery is it’s three-dimensional,” Nolan said, via THR. “You know, 95 percent of our depth cues come from occlusion, resolution, color and so forth, so the idea of calling a 2-D movie a ’2-D movie’ is a little misleading.”

Nolan has long been an opponent of 3-D filmmaking and has refused to use it in any of his movies to date. He did test it on Inception — a film that we thought couldn’t get any trippier–but ultimately wasn’t happy with what he was seeing.

“We didn’t have time to do it to the standards that I would be happy with,” Nolan explained.

He may end up coming around to the technology as it’s been proven that it can indeed be useful. Martin Scoresese used the technology in his film Hugo and, in a very Scorsese way, changed the way we think 3-D can be used as the director used the 3-D aspect to help tell the story rather than put it in as a gimmick.

But clearly, at the end of the day, Nolan is jut a regular guy who wants to go to the cinema with his family and take in the latest Superman movie. The only difference is, he’s not your average guy who likes to sit in the second row of the theater, because that day for those people in that theater, the guy in the second row created what everyone was seeing.