Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan "Jonah" Nolanis a British-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author. He is the creator of the crime drama series Person of Interest. He has co-written several screenplays with his elder brother, filmmaker Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar, and his short story "Memento Mori" was the basis for Memento...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
affiliated either wikileaks
I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.
durable good human terms
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
feast filmmaker job pack pick possibilities script
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
movies transports
I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
ambient cameras capturing human people
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
certain children connection crafted disaster horizon love nature profound push side utmost
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
simple clouds people
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.
forgiving remember forget
How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?
over-you trying matter
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.
moon age gone
You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.
tv-shows tvs shows
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
tv-shows people want
To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.
revenge memories paranoia
I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.
understanding instruments humans
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.