Quotes by Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

Cameras

Shots

Stories

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.

Boys

Hero

Simple

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.

Dream

Ideas

People

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.

Answers

Phones

Television

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Character

Keys

Stories

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.

Quality

Responsibility

Technology

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

Film

Wanted

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.

Cutting

Ideas

Reading

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

Curves

Dark

Knights

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Movie

Should Have

World

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Able

Acting

Actors

Answers

Archetype

Art

Attitude

Audience

Believe

Bits

Book

Boys

Brain

Brother

Cameras

Car

Character

Christian

College

Color

Combination

Competition

Curves

Cutting

Dark

Darling

Demand

Design

Different

Done

Dream

Editing

Emotional

Feelings

Film

Filmmaking

Firsts

Fun

Genre

Giving

Glamorous

Great Love

Hands

Hero

Home

Honesty

Ideas

Incredibles

Interesting

Jobs

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Quotes by Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.

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.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

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.

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

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

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