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Film Quotes by Christopher Nolan
- I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you…
- I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so…
- I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
- Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely…
- I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the…
- I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have…
- Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
- I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly…
- Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
- By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
- I would never say someone else’s film isn’t ‘a real film.’ The quote is inaccurate.
- The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
- The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All…
- I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
- I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer.…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable.
- 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…
- 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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