Christopher Nolan Quotes

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• You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
• Every great story deserves a great ending
• For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean,…
• Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
• I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you…
• The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning…
• As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you…
• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job…
• I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
• I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
• I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
• I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
• 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 terms,…
• One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it…
• But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be…
• I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because…
• My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding…

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