Christopher Nolan Quotes

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• You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

  Christopher Nolan

  Learning, Profound, Curiosity

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• A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Cameras, Stories, Shots

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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 Nolan

  Movie, Should Have, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

  Christopher Nolan

  Fall, Batman Dark Knight, Trilogies

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• You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Littles, Darling

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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 Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Believe

  "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.

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• Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivational, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every great story deserves a great ending

  Christopher Nolan

  Stories, Deserve

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• I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

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  Different, Film, Audience

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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 Nolan

  Mistake, Thinking, Self

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions

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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 Nolan

  Taken, Mean, Bridges

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

  Christopher Nolan

  Risk, Trying, Want

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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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 Nolan

  Understanding, Filmmaker, Imagery

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

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  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.

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  Selfish, People, Competition

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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.

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  Jobs, Taken, Superhero

  "'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.

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  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to make me feel emotional, but I don't believe the filmmaker shares that emotion. They just think the audience will. And I think you can feel that separation. So any time I find myself writing something that I don't really respond to, but I'm telling myself, 'Oh yes, but the audience is going to like this,' then I know I'm on the wrong track and I just throw it out.

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  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

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  Design, Sound, Film

  Source: collider.com

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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 Nolan

  Firsts, Genre, Term

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.

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• I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.

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  Watches, Sometimes, Clue

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

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  Writing, Emotional, Combination

  Source: deadline.com

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• I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

  Christopher Nolan

  Together, Stories

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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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  Character, Light, Movement

  Source: collider.com

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• I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

  Christopher Nolan

  Lucky, Pessimist, Persons

  "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.

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