Top 66 Jonathan Nolan Quotes

#1. Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

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#2. I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

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#3. I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

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#4. I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

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#5. I'm not a big fan of visual effects.

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#6. 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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#7. TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

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#8. You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting ... It's random access.

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#9. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

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#10. Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.

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#11. I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

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#12. I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

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#13. For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

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#14. Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.

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#15. I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

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#16. We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

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#17. Why bother reading something that you won't remember?

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#18. 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.

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#19. People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

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#20. The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it.

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#21. Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

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#22. I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.

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#23. We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.

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#24. How can you forgive if you can't remember to forget?

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#25. To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

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#26. We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

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#27. The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

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#28. In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

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#29. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

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#30. I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.

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#31. Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

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#32. You will be late for your own funeral.

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#33. Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You're no different.

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#34. 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.

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#35. I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

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#36. When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.

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#37. I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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#38. 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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#39. I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

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#40. Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

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#41. It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

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#42. My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

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#43. 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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#44. 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.

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#45. 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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#46. The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

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#47. 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.

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#48. For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.

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#49. Books are a time machine.

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#50. I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching.

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#51. The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang, hand in hand, and lead them. The best way to do this is with a list.

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#52. I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

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#53. I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

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#54. Lists are the only way out of this mess.

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#55. For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

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#56. I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

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#57. When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

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#58. 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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#59. We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars; now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

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#60. Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

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#61. I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

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#62. Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.

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#63. I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

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#64. Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

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#65. I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

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#66. I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

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