British - Writer | 1976 -
I'm a big, big, big techno dork.
Jonathan Nolan
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I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
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When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.
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Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
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I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.
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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.
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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
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Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
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Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.
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I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
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I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.
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To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.
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