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
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — 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
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
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
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
For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other… — 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
