Latest Jonathan Nolan Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Source: collider.com

• Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Hbo, Wind

  Source: www.vulture.com

• One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Fun, People, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Photography, Location, Bigs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moving, Answers, Next

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Real, World, Violence

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great experience and seamless experience. You'd also have security. So, we laid out the corporate structure, and then we cherry-picked from that the people who would be brought into the most conflict and the most day-to-day relationship with each other and with the hosts.

  Jonathan Nolan

  People, Quality, Glitches

  Source: collider.com

• When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: collider.com

• I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Matter, Way, Projects

  Source: collider.com

• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Tvs, Marathon, Discovering

  Source: collider.com

• Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Different, Television

  Source: collider.com

• For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Years, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

  Source: collider.com

• To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Tv Shows, People, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

• I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Years, Trying, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

• Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

  Jonathan Nolan

  New York, Character, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

• You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Ideas, Expansion, World

  Source: collider.com

• We're gonna play a little bit of a game here [Person of Interest movie]. Greg and I felt like we had responsibility when we wrapped up the pilot, to have a roadmap for where the show went. When we pitched the pilot, we knew what we wanted the last episode to be, the last image, I think we even know what the last song is.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Song, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Memories, Revenge, Paranoia

  "Comic-Con 2011: Jonathan Nolan, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Taraji P. Henson Talk PERSON OF INTEREST & the Creepiness of Modern Surveillance". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

• I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Thinking, People, Taste

  "Comic-Con 2011: Jonathan Nolan, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Taraji P. Henson Talk PERSON OF INTEREST & the Creepiness of Modern Surveillance". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 26, 2011.

• I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Talking, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

• It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything".

  Jonathan Nolan

  Needs, Actors, Just Saying

  Source: collider.com

• I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Fun, Space, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

• 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