My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
There is a whole spectrum of possibilities encompassed by the word entertainment, but I do believe that film has developed into 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
I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and… — 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.… — 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
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
The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think film is first and foremost entertainment. But, all forms of entertainment throughout history have always produced works that last and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
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
I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost… — 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 '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
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
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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
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 Image
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles. — 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
“(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made.” — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image