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
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
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams… — 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
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're… — 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 audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake… — 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
I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having… — 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
Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the… — 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
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