Christopher Nolan Quotes

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• We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways.…
• I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you…
• Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
• I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
• I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
• A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let…
• 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 to it, so…
• I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
• If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
• I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something…
• Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely…
• George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the…
• What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to…
• I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.
• I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the…
• I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have…
• I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
• Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
• I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly…
• Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

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