Christopher Nolan Quotes

• I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.

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• We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

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  Tags in Morning, Character, Usually

• The term ‘genre’ eventually becomes pejorative because you’re referring to something that’s so codified and ritualised meaning it had when it first started.

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  Tags in Something, Referring

• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

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  Tags in Need, Actors, Feel

• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn’t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

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  Tags in Anything, Similar, Really

• If I could steal someone’s dream myself, I’d have to go for one of Orson Welles.

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  Tags in Myself, Could

• 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.

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  Tags in Wanted, Interested, Dreams

• I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Think, Becoming

• I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

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  Tags in Existed, Really, Interested

• 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 for similar reasons.

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  Tags in Reasons, Extraordinary, Completely

• 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’m somewhat sceptical of the technology.

  Christopher Nolan

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Enjoy, Quality

• Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

  Christopher Nolan

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  Tags in Different, Characters, Story

• 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 can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

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  Tags in Pretty, Television, Watched

Christopher Nolan (13)

Birth:	30th July, 1970
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan was born in London, England. He  is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. His nine films have grossed over US$4.2 billion worldwide and garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations and seven awards. He found further popular and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and Interstellar. His childhood was split between London and Chicago, and he has both British and American citizenship. After graduation, Nolan directed corporate videos and industrial films.

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