Christopher Nolan fans should not expect a romcom from the acclaimed director anytime soon, if ever.

The Oscar winner, 55, whose latest epic, The Odyssey, is dominating box offices, admitted that while he loves watching romcoms, helming one would be “incredibly difficult.”

“I think people who direct comedy, people who do comedy, I think that’s one of the hardest things in the world to make people laugh that way,” Nolan said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“Particularly, the risk they take when you make a film — if I show a film to people and maybe they don’t respond to bits of it, I’m like, ‘Ah, they don’t get it. Whatever,’” the Oppenheimer director added.

“There’s no hiding behind that when you do comedy. So, I would be terrified of doing anything like that.”

Nolan’s repertoire includes a long list of acclaimed action, drama and psychological thrillers. He made his directorial debut in 1998 with Following, a crime thriller starring Jeremy Theobald about a young writer living in London who follows strangers’ lives for material. His hobby soon turns into an obsession that leads him down a dark path.

In 2000, the British director came out with his Guy Pearce-led psychological thriller Memento, which earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

From there, he continued his ascent to become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand directors, releasing Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020) and Oppenheimer (2023), which landed him his first Oscar wins for Best Director and Best Picture.

Just over a week ago, Nolan premiered The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem. Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, King of Ithaca, the story follows his perilous journey home after the 10-year Trojan War. Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o also feature.

The Odyssey has already become a critical and box office success, raking in $639.6 million globally so far.

“As a feat of pure adaptation, Nolan has achieved something I admittedly thought was near impossible,” The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey wrote in a five-star review. “His stamp is all over the film — this is intellectual, brutalist, muscular Hollywood fare — yet it never wavers in its commitment to, and comprehension of, its source text.”

Declaring it “his best film to date,” Loughrey further applauded the performances, arguing that “there’s not a weak link.”