Christopher Nolan quotes

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. (Christopher Nolan)
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. View quote
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. View quote
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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. View quote
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In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. View quote
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When you think of the visual style, when you think of the visual language of a film there tends to be a natural separation of the visual style and the narrative elements, but with the great, whether it is Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick or Hitchcock what you're seeing is inseparable, a vital relationship between the images and the story he's telling. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick. View quote
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We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. View quote
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films. (Christopher Nolan)
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. View quote
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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. View quote
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I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. View quote
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I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. View quote
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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. View quote
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The ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for. View quote
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With The Dark Knight you had to strike a balance of familiarity with the audience. It is a sequel, and they want familiar elements, things they liked from the first film. But you always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness. At script stage, we really tried to thrash that out-are we striking that right balance? View quote
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I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again. (Christopher Nolan)
But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. View quote
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I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology. View quote
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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. View quote
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The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you. View quote
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