Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan is a British film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 July 1970
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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.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
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I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
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I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.
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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.
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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
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I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
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No, I've only ever done one film at a time.
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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.
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
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To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
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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.