Christopher Nolan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions
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“I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : Source: collider.com
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“For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.
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“I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.”
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“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.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.
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“I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
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“The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.”
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“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.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.
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“I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.”
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“People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.”
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“I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.”
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“It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.”
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“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.
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“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Why Louise Redknapp is taking her time losing baby bulge". www.mirror.co.uk. August 10, 2005.
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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.”
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“I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.”
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“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.
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“I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.”
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“I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.”
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“The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.”
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“A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.”
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“I'm a very fortunate person. I get to choose the movies that I want to do. I have a lot of friends in this industry that don't get to do that. I grew up in L.A. A lot of my friends are actors so I realize every day how lucky I am to have this opportunity, so while I'm here, I'm going to try to do exactly what I want.”
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“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.
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“Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”
-- Christopher NolanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.”
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“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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“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of meanness, or anything, it just sort of seemed an interesting idea to see if there was some synchronicity and letting me use my imagination to the fullest instead of being constricted by cuts and images.”
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“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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