I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — 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
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
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
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
Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I… — 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
