Christopher Nolan Quotes

British - Director | July 30, 1970 -

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

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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

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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

Christopher Nolan

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The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Christopher Nolan

ArchitectureJobMeFilmmakingOnly

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

Christopher Nolan

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When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Nolan

BrainWorldYouPersonPlayWay

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

Christopher Nolan

GreatFunMeWorldBelieveYou

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

Christopher Nolan

ThinkYouFilmmakingWantJust One

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

Christopher Nolan

BestFeelNeedOutJustAccommodate

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

Christopher Nolan

ProblemYouBackNeverBigSnowball

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

Christopher Nolan

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No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

Christopher Nolan

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