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Christopher Nolan

(1970) Film Director

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A train that will take you far away appears in his metaphor, hinting that the future is uncertain yet full of hope. He notes that Hollywood welcomes fresh talent while other places stay wary of newcomers. He also stresses that a script’s structure must be worked out carefully before filming begins.

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Christopher Nolan is a film director, best known for Under the Eye of the Clock.

Quick Facts About Christopher Nolan

Born: July 30, 1970
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Under the Eye of the Clock

About Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. As a significant auteur of his generation, he has established himself as a major figure of 21st-century Hollywood. His films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh highest-grossing film director of all time. Nolan's accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. He was appointed as a CBE in 2019 and was knighted in 2024 for his contributions to film.

Quotes by Christopher Nolan

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

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I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

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Attitude

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No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

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Cinema

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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

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Cinema

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The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

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Excellence

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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

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Every great story deserves a great ending

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A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

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Camera

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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

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Actor

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I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

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It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do…

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Commercial success

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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the…

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Batman

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A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's…

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Boys

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The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to…

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I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams…

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Dream

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Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

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Best way

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But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened,…

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“was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to…

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Compassion

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As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid…

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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience…

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I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am,…

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Audience

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Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through…

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Approach

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“EAMES: Shouldn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Arthur- Eames lines up a shot with a grenade launcher. Fires- the sniper…

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Dreams

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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about…

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Actors

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Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that…

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Actor

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The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with…

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Audience

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It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For…

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Audience

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For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and…

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“EAMES: Now, in the dream, I can impersonate Browning and suggest the concepts to Fischer's conscious mind... EAMES: (draws a diagram) Then…

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Conscious mind

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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…

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What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

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Audience

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I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as…

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Analogies

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“COBB: What do you want from us? SAITO: Inception. Arthur raises his eyebrows. Cobb is poker-faced. SAITO: Is it possible? ARTHUR: Of…

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Inception

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“EAMES: There's a man here. Yusuf. He formulates his own versions of the compound. COBB: Let's go see him. EAMES: Once you've…

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Businessman

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“EAMES: Word is, you're not welcome in these parts. COBB: Yeah? EAMES: There's a price on your head from Cobol Engineering. Pretty…

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“ARTHUR: The only way to wake up from inside the dream is to die.”

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Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

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“There's a point where we just let the music take over everything.”

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Music

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I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

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Love

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You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

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