Christopher Nolan Quotes
19 quotes from Christopher Nolan — British-American filmmaker known for The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer (Best P….
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”
“A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended.”
“Every great story deserves a great ending.”
“You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity.”
“You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.”
“I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.”
“For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.”
“I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.”
“A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.”
“I don't want you to chase your dreams. I want you to chase your reality.”
“What happens when you make a film is you burrow into it, you dig in. So you kind of can't see it anymore. You're immersed in it. The only thing you can do is trust your initial instincts.”
“People ask if we'd always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated.”
“I knew the structure I wanted. I knew that I wanted to tell the story subjectively. But I knew that I didn't want to use voiceover. I was actually stuck.”
“That feeling you have that you can write something, when you know, 'Okay, I've got it now,' you have to write exactly then and get it on the page, because that feeling will disappear like a fart in the wind.”
“In the great tradition of these speeches, generally someone says something along the lines of 'Chase your dreams,' but I don't want to tell you that because I don't believe that. I want you to chase your reality.”
“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new.”
“He'd already called me and said he wanted me to play the part. And I had said yes — because I always say yes to him.”
“Not only did Oppenheimer work, but it seemed to work in defiance of received wisdom. All around the industry, a lot of people were saying, 'This is not what the audience wants — it's a bummer, and they just want escapism.' And they were all wrong.”
