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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I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't hav...

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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

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I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

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I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

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I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

Jonathan Nolan

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

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When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.

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I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

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I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

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Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

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Author Bio

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