Nolan's Quotes

#1. When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Steven Soderbergh

#2. And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

Anne Hathaway

#3. Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

Joe Morgenstern

#4. Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

John Podhoretz

#5. Holy shit." Nolan's tone was reverential. Claire had seen men get harder over Paul's garage than they ever got over a woman.

Karin Slaughter

#6. It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

Tom Hardy

#7. The Nolan's just could't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.

Betty Smith

#8. Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

Jon Favreau

#9. All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Gabriel Mann

#10. 'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Annalee Newitz

#11. When the critics come around it's always too late.

Sidney Nolan

#12. You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Christopher Nolan

#13. Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

Nolan North

#14. It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan.

Xavier Gens

#15. 'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

Nolan North

#16. I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.

Nolan North

#17. In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

Nolan Gould

#18. Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

Nolan Sotillo

#19. There's a point where we just let the music take over everything.

Christopher J. Nolan

#20. Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

Nolan Ryan

#21. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Christopher Nolan

#22. I stare into the ruggedly handsome face, the eyes alight with a vast intelligence and that eerie, unearthly power. He's beautiful, so haunted with power it takes me a second to realize exactly what position Nolan Storm has put me in, and by extension, my family.

L.E. Sterling

#23. I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

Han Nolan

#24. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#25. There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Nolan North

#26. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#27. If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?

Nolan Gerard Funk

#28. The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Gabriel Mann

#29. I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

Nolan Bushnell

#30. I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

Christopher Nolan

#31. It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan

Sarah Brocious

#32. The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

Christopher Nolan

#33. I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it's always a source of great concern to me when you're charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

Christopher Nolan

#34. I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

Nolan Bushnell

#35. Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.

Nolan Bushnell

#36. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Christopher Nolan

#37. It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

Christopher Nolan

#38. Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get -Dolores Nolan

Stephanie Perkins

#39. The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.

Christopher Nolan

#40. Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.

Nolan Bushnell

#41. 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.

Christopher Nolan

#42. In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

Nolan Bushnell

#43. You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

Reggie Jackson

#44. I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.

Christopher Nolan

#45. The best type of date is when it's an unexpected thing. It could be starting as a friendship or a first meeting where you meet and then you end up talking for 15 hours in a row. That's kind of where you're so in sync that it's just cohesive and it's fun.

Nolan Gerard Funk

#46. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#47. People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

Christopher Nolan

#48. I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Christopher Nolan

#49. Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Sidney Nolan

#50. In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Christopher Nolan

#51. If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Christopher Nolan

#52. When I was a lot younger, I did some work with St. Jude's, but then we went on a 'Red Band' tour across the United States, and we went to a bunch of hospitals and had the privilege of meeting kids who are suffering or going through these different situations.

Nolan Sotillo

#53. I think it's important to be authentic but also be able to have fun and not be overly controlling or insecure. Dating is just one of those things where it's kind of when you know, you know. I have been really busy with my career and sometimes I find it hard to juggle the two.

Nolan Gerard Funk

#54. Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

Nolan Ryan

#55. Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process.

Han Nolan

#56. What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

Sylvia Plath

#57. Am I your dom, little rabbit?"
"Yes." Her red-brown brows drew together. "What's wrong?"
"Not a thing." He gave her a faint smile, and his gravelly voice deepened. "I thought I'd tell you we're getting married next month."
~Nolan and Beth~

Cherise Sinclair

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

Jonathan Nolan

#59. It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

Christopher Nolan

#60. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#61. There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.

Michael Uslan

#62. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#63. I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

Christopher Nolan

#64. I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

Katie Nolan

#65. My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.

Christopher Nolan

#66. The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

#67. You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.

Nolan Sotillo

#68. 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.

Christopher Nolan

#69. Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Nolan Bushnell

#70. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

Christopher Nolan

#71. When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

Han Nolan

#72. I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Nolan Bushnell

#73. I've been told that the color blue can actually cause the body to produce calming chemicals, helping one to relax.
I wonder if that's true. I wonder if it's false. I wonder what it says about me that I feel nothing.

Caroline Nolan

#74. 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.

Christopher Nolan

#75. I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.

Han Nolan

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

Jonathan Nolan

#77. 'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.

Nolan Sotillo

#78. If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

Christopher Nolan

#79. Just before I drop into a chair in my English classroom I pick up my phone and send Nolan a text.
"What if there's a day when I can't be there with my mom when she's at home?"
I don't even have to wait thirty seconds before he sends his reply:
"Then I'll be there

Paige McKenzie

#80. They stayed with my mum."
"That's ... weird."
"Not really. Mum is cool, easy to get along with."
I raise a teasing eyebrow. "So where did YOU guys stay?"
"Where we always stay." He stares back solemnly. "In our very separate dormitories.

Stephanie Perkins

#81. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

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

Jonathan Nolan

#83. It's an interesting dynamic living in New York in general as a Boston fan. It's kind of fun that way. It's fun to be the contrarian when everyone hates you as long as your team is winning.

Katie Nolan

#84. Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Reggie Jackson

#85. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

David S.Goyer

#86. I wanted to go to school for public relations, and I also wanted to minor in dance. And Hofstra had two really good programs for both of those, so that's why I ended up there.

Katie Nolan

#87. I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

Nolan Bushnell

#88. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#89. You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

Nolan Bushnell

#90. We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

Christopher Nolan

#91. He leaned over and inhaled the pillow Gray had been on. Sick freak. She ought to suffocate him with it the moment he fell asleep. But Nolan lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Murder's

Nikki Jefford

#92. Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

Nolan Bushnell

#93. It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

David Brooks

#94. Bruce Wayne/Batman: 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 that the world hadn't ended.

Christopher Nolan

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

Jonathan Nolan

#96. In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

Nolan Bushnell

#97. Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.

Nolan Bushnell

#98. 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.

Jonathan Nolan

#99. I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have.

Katie Nolan

#100. 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.

Jonathan Nolan