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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cheaper extremely far felt hundred increasing known last pressure shooting stop technology understood work
For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
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Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.
lucky pessimist persons
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
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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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I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.
films pull rapidly
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.
becomes ceases eventually meaning power referring term
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.
absolute believe difference imagery incredibly tool
The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
filmmaking interest job
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
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But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.
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When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
taken mean bridges
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.
different film audience
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
watches clue film
I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.