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
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
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
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
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
Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading… — 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
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
The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality… — 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
What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
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
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
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