Christopher Nolan Quotes

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

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.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Why do we Fall?
So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

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.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

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

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and
'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

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

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

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

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

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.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

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

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

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.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Restfully reassured by his new friends, Joseph now nominated God in a new light, 'Man is God hesitant and God is Man hesitantly trying to help.

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.

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

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.