Christopher Nolan has been a champion of the Fast and Furious film franchise for a few years now, and in a new interview with Stephen Colbert, he’s defended his fandom once again.

“I have no guilt about being a fan of the Fast and Furious franchise,” the Oppenheimer director asserted after Colbert asked if the films were a guilty pleasure on a recent episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Continuing, Nolan called the series “a tremendous action franchise,” and showed some genuine amazement when Colbert revealed that he had never seen any of the films.

“You’ve never seen any of them?” Nolan asked, expressing his fascination with Colbert’s confession. “I watch those movies all the time. I love them. I’m amazed you’ve never seen one of them.”

Then, Nolan offered his recommendation for how to watch the franchise. “You don’t need to watch them all in one sitting,” he began, responding to Colbert’s request that they do a marathon viewing. “It’s only the last few where a specific arc and mythology develop. I would start with Tokyo Drift and watch it as its own thing.”

Watch a clip of the interview below.

This isn’t the first time Nolan has talked about his admiration for the Fast and Furious franchise. Appearing on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, he said that he had a “very spot soft” for Tokyo Drift, and praised the films for how “they got crazier and bigger and crazier and bigger,” and became “something else, but something else kinda fun.”

Meanwhile, other than “saving cinema” by Martin Scorsese’s standards and wasting peoples’ time by his Peloton instructor’s standards, Nolan has the upcoming theatrical re-release of Tenet to look forward to. Starting on February 23rd, the film will be shown in theaters for a week, marking the first time it’ll have a theatrical run since the COVID-cautious days of its 2020 release.

As for Fast and Furious, Universal Pictures announced last June that Dwayne Johnson will reprise his role as Luke Hobbs in a new spinoff, due sometime in 2025. For more, revisit Consequence‘s rundown of every Fast and Furious movie ranked by least family to most family.