Christopher Nolan Quotes

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• People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
• By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
• I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world…
• I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important…
• We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
• I would never say someone else’s film isn’t ‘a real film.’ The quote is inaccurate.
• What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's…
• A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
• I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
• The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
• To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
• When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
• I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price…
• The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.
• 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 Begins ... All…
• I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
• It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a…
• I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer.…
• Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.
• There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears…

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