Christopher Nolan Quotes - Page 3

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• Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mean, Acting, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Missing, Sentimental

  "Read Christopher Nolan's Farewell Letter to the Batman Franchise" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

  Christopher Nolan

  Logistics, Way, Budgets

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

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  Motivation, Insomnia, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're sleeping, I come away feeling like our minds are not remotely understood by science.

  Christopher Nolan

  Sleep, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie Love, Guy, Things I Love

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• As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Ideas, People

  "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". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarib, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.

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  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm a very fortunate person. I get to choose the movies that I want to do. I have a lot of friends in this industry that don't get to do that. I grew up in L.A. A lot of my friends are actors so I realize every day how lucky I am to have this opportunity, so while I'm here, I'm going to try to do exactly what I want.

  Christopher Nolan

  Opportunity, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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

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  Revenge, Ideas, Interesting

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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.

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  Real, Play, Brain

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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.

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  Reading, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

  Christopher Nolan

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.78, Insight Editions

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• I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

  Christopher Nolan

  Great Love, Likes, Source

  "No 'Dark Knight' 3D" by Devid Germain, www.salon.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

  Christopher Nolan

  Believe, Eye, World

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• The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with a very wide audience. You can't ever hide behind the notion of, 'Okay, they just don't get it,' or, 'Certain people just don't get it.' You have to be mindful of the size of your audience, and you have to communicate in a way that lets them in.

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  Responsibility, People, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

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  Thinking, Blade Runner, Sound

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

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  Men, Steel, Tone

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Technology, People, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.

  Christopher Nolan

  Photography, Editing, Machines

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• For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

  Christopher Nolan

  Light, Trying, Able

  "Inception: Christopher Nolan and cast UK press conference". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

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  Thinking, Trying, Sticks

  Source: collider.com

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