All Jonathan Nolan Quotes
- Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots. Chain
- 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… Dirt
- We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. 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… Any
- 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… Been
- 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… Expectations
- 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… All
- 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… Always Need
- 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… All
- 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… Final
- 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… Age
- 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… All
- 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… Amount
- 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… Didactic
- 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… Actor
- Books are a time machine. Book
- The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a… All
- For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. Becomes
- We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important. History
- If you're good at something, never do it for free. Free
- Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at… All
- Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. Abstraction
- I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph… Anarchy
- Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was… Already Come
- You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment.… Ability