Christopher Nolan Quotes

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• Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount…
• When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your…
• Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my…
• The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration,…
• I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
• Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation,…
• I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
• You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
• Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you…
• If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's…
• You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that…
• I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or…
• 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…
• Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable.
• Batman is a marvelously complex character-somebody who has absolute charm and then, just like that, can turn it into ice-cold ruthlessness. There are very few…
• I think film is first and foremost entertainment. But, all forms of entertainment throughout history have always produced works that last and transcend the concept…
• As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to for the stories…
• All entertainment can take many different forms. It can be serious and intellectually stimulating, and it can also be a temporary way to forget our…
• There is a whole spectrum of possibilities encompassed by the word entertainment, but I do believe that film has developed into the most important story-telling…

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