Jonathan Nolan Quotes

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• Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.
• We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our…
• We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
• I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind…
• Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this…
• Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you…
• I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that…
• I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that…
• One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade…
• I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because…
• You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born…
• We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to…
• I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had…
• I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to…
• It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to…
• Books are a time machine.
• The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a…
• For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
• We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.
• If you're good at something, never do it for free.

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