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Christopher Nolan

(1970) Film Director

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Christopher Nolan is a film director, best known for Under the Eye of the Clock.

Quick Facts About Christopher Nolan

Born: July 30, 1970
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Under the Eye of the Clock

About Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. As a significant auteur of his generation, he has established himself as a major figure of 21st-century Hollywood. His films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh highest-grossing film director of all time. Nolan's accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. He was appointed as a CBE in 2019 and was knighted in 2024 for his contributions to film.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Christopher Nolan · Page 3

“How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?”

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Inception-the-shooting-script

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I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we…

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Audience

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I think film is first and foremost entertainment. But, all forms of entertainment throughout history have always produced works that last and…

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Cinema

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The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to…

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Back

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For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive…

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Bridges

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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that…

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Culture

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“COBB: Our dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake we realize things were strange. Ariadne gestures around…

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Dreams

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“Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a…

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Batman

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“EAMES: Now, in the dream, I can impersonate Browning and suggest the concepts to Fischer's conscious mind... EAMES: (draws a diagram) Then…

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Conscious mind

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The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an…

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Absolute

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“was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to…

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Compassion

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“ARTHUR: How do we get out once we've made the plant? (to Cobb) I hope you've got something a little more elegant…

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Last time

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I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great…

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Always believe

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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

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Cinema

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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…

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Attention

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As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid…

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Bigs

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I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen…

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Art

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Say you have a headline like "Mountain Bike Stolen," and then you read the story, read another story about it the next…

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Character

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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the…

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Genre

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When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes.…

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Deals

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“EAMES: Word is, you're not welcome in these parts. COBB: Yeah? EAMES: There's a price on your head from Cobol Engineering. Pretty…

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“SAITO: Care for a lift, Mr. Cobb? COBB: (jumping in) What brings you to Mombasa, Mr. Saito? SAITO: I have to protect…

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Investing

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I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams…

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Dream

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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience…

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Always

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“ARIADNE: Why are they looking at me? COBB: Because you're changing things. My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world.…

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Change things

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Christopher Nolan by topic

Film (42) Cinema (36) Audience (21) Thinking (19) Way (18) Want (14) World (13) People (13) Movie (13) Dreams (13) Trying (12) Time (12) Stories (11) Theatre (10) Psychology (9)