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
Christopher Nolan quotes about
thinking missing sentimental
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
character keys different
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
writing trying way
I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.
curiosity
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
hands way film
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
mean play people
It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any time you're going to have a reveal in the film, it's essential that it have been shown to the audience as much as possible. What that means is that some people are going to figure it out very early on. Other people not til the end. Everybody watches the film differently.
movie inspiring actors
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
film wanted
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
dream memories emotional
When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.
motivational thinking ideas
Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.
cameras stories shots
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
thinking blade-runner sound
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.
design sound film
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.
light trying down-and
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.