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
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
We're gonna play a little bit of a game here [Person of Interest movie]. Greg and I felt like we had responsibility… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“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 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 moment. This… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
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 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 a great… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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 wrapped up the pilot, to have a roadmap for where the show went. When we pitched the pilot, we knew what we wanted the last episode to be, the last image, I think we even…” quote by Jonathan Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/439/jonathan-nolan-6754_bits_we-re-gonna-play-a-little-bit-of-a-game_419978.jpg)
