Christopher Nolan Quotes About Film

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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.
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.
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.

Christopher Nolan

Phones, Answers, Television

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

Christopher Nolan

Done, Way, Satisfaction

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

Christopher Nolan

Motivational, Character, Thinking

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

Christopher Nolan

Character, Light, Movement

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In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Christopher Nolan

People, Trying, England

"He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

Christopher Nolan

College, Thinking, Literature

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward.

Christopher Nolan

Christian, Stars, Moving

"Industry Buzz" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. August 21, 2005.
I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.

Christopher Nolan

Adventure, Thinking, Ideas

Source: collider.com
It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any time you're going to have a reveal in the film, it's essential that it have been shown to the audience as much as possible. What that means is that some people are going to figure it out very early on. Other people not til the end. Everybody watches the film differently.

Christopher Nolan

Mean, Play, People

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

Christopher Nolan

Different, Film, Audience
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.

Christopher Nolan

Drama, Thinking, Opportunity

Source: collider.com
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.

Christopher Nolan

Watches, Sometimes, Clue

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I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

Christopher Nolan

Careers, Done, Want

Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.18, Insight Editions
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.

Christopher Nolan

Character, Atmosphere, Actors

Source: collider.com
The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

Christopher Nolan

Thinking, Blade Runner, Sound

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But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

Christopher Nolan

Responsibility, Technology, Quality

"Christopher Nolan Talks 3D, Why He Shoots IMAX, His Approach to CGI, and Much More in Fascinating DGA Interview" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 13, 2012.
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.

Christopher Nolan

Marketing, Balance, Film

Source: collider.com
Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

Christopher Nolan

Mean, Acting, Quality

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Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

Christopher Nolan

Hands, Way, Film

"CinemaCon: Christopher Nolan Talks 'Interstellar,' Plugs Film Over Digital in Hollywood Reporter Q&A" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2014.
What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.

Christopher Nolan

Writing, Character, Mean

Source: deadline.com
The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?

Christopher Nolan

Views, Trying, Addresses

Source: www.movieweb.com
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

Technology, Thinking, Quality

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Born: July 30, 1970
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