Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

About Jonathan Nolan:

Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is an English-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author. He is the creator of the crime drama series Person of Interest. He has co-written several screenplays with his brother, filmmaker Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar, and his short story "Memento Mori" was the basis for Memento.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

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I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

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I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

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In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

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Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas...

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To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

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Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.

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I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are...

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I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

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One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in s...

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I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.

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Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

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My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

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I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

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With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

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It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

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I'm not a big fan of visual effects.

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I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

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When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

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Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Nolan
  • DescriptionScreenwriter
  • BornJune 6, 1976
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Producer; Writer