Christopher Nolan Quotes

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

God, Human, Mean

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

Power, Started, Meaning

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

Different, Story, Both

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.
Christopher Nolan

Dreams, Mind, Dream

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

Pretty, Place, Lose

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 Nolan

Job, Else, Culture

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, Enjoy, Film

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

Yourself, Writer, Filmmaker

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
Christopher Nolan

Revenge, Idea, Whether

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

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.
Christopher Nolan

Morning, Character, Live

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental.
Christopher Nolan

Different, Both, Superman

But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.
Christopher Nolan

Successful, Job, Before

But 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.
Christopher Nolan

Dreams, Mind, Dream

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
Christopher Nolan

Experience, Movies, Mind

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

Work, Technology, Film

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
Christopher Nolan

Time, Wanted, Knew

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
Christopher Nolan

Work, Technology, Why

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.
Christopher Nolan

Away, Kid, Reasons

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

Love, Together, Tell

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, Made, Wanted

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

Person, Lucky, Truly

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.
Christopher Nolan

Happy, Yourself, Strange

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
Christopher Nolan

Different, Filmmaking, Advantages

I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
Christopher Nolan

Kids, Often, Respond

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Nationality: British

Born: June 30, 1970

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