Nolan Quotes

• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Curves, Balls

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• Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, Character, Interesting

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

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• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  Adam McKay

  Advice, Want, Call Me

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• What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

  Nolan Ryan

  Men, Mirrors, Looks

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• It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

  David Brooks

  People, Goal, Guy

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moon, Age, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Christopher Nolan

  Reading, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Christopher Nolan

  Character, Atmosphere, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while the camera is rolling. Even amidst these enormous technical productions, Chris [ Nolan] always prioritized making sure that sort of spontaneous and organic feeling could happen at the moment.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Nice, Feelings, Cameras

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

  James Berardinelli

  Strong, Men, Waiting

  "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Book, Cities, Different

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• I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

  Dave Winfield

  Games, Guy, Enough

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• Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Guy, Bed

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• Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

  Randy Johnson

  Baseball, Dad, Heart

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• There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

  Collin Peterson

  Cities, Looks, Maps

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Just watching Chris Nolan direct was amazing. He is one of the most lovely people, which as you know doesn't always go hand-in-hand with great directors. But with Christopher Nolan, and there's only a few I think like him in Hollywood, that's absolutely true.

  Suzanne Todd

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like the big twist shows are now off the table. I think Westworld was probably the last one to Trojan horse this idea of the young man in black. They were doing non-linear storytelling, but disguising it. Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have spoken openly about how they just didn't think people were going to figure it out that fast.

  Damon Lindelof

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  "‘The Leftovers’ Season 3: Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta on the Final Episodes, Reddit’s Influence on Storytelling". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2017.

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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• Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.

  Ernie Harwell

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• I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Men, Years, Australia

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  John Podhoretz

  Movie, Dark, Keys

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• What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

  John Podhoretz

  Hero, People, Evil

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• When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Independent, Film, Memento

  "Steven Soderbergh & Shane Carruth Talk 'Upstream Color,' Its Lack Of Cats & Suspicious Marketing In China" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 09, 2013.

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• Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.

  Betty Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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