Cinema Quote by Jonathan Nolan

“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 tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.”

Jonathan Nolan

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