To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple.… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple.… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
“Time is theft, isn't that what they say? And time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
“If time and fear aren’t enough to dissuade people from their revenge, then there’s always authority, softly shaking its head and saying, 'We understand,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
We're gonna play a little bit of a game here [Person of Interest movie]. Greg and I felt like we had responsibility when we… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share
