Quotes by Christopher Nolan

About Christopher Nolan:

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is an English-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed several of the most acclaimed and commercially successful films of the early 21st century. His nine films have grossed over US$4.2 billion worldwide and garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations and seven awards.
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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

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When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Nolan

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

Christopher Nolan

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.

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I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan fo...

Christopher Nolan

I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.

Christopher Nolan

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.

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But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.

Christopher Nolan

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

Christopher Nolan

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

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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 the way I wanted it to be.

Christopher Nolan

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

Christopher Nolan

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

Christopher Nolan

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

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I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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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 young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Nolan
  • DescriptionBritish-American film director, screenwriter, and producer
  • BornJuly 30, 1970
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Actor; Writer; Camera Operator
  • AwardsIndiana Film Journalists Association Award For Best Director