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
develop hard takes time
I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
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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.
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In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
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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.
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I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.
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I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.
work
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
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I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
work
I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.
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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.
actors needs just-saying
It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything".
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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.