We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made.” — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
“COBB: You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
“(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made.” — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share
