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Because it is the light that helps cast the shadow, and it is the dark which provides the background to give light its vibrancy. Practitioners
— Gillian Nolan
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
Of course, she would think that. It's not like you haven't referred to Thor plenty of times as your furry son.
— R.J. Nolan
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
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
— Nolan Ryan
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
— Steven Soderbergh
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
— Nolan Bushnell
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
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
You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor.
— Ryan Kavanaugh
I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
— Sidney Nolan
If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
— Jonathan Nolan
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
— Nolan Sotillo
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
I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.
— Anne Hathaway
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
Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.
— Nolan Sotillo
There's a point where we just let the music take over everything.
— Christopher J. Nolan
I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.
— Katie Nolan
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.
— Christopher Nolan
In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
— Jonathan Nolan
I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
— Christopher Nolan
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
— Christopher Nolan
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.
— Christopher Nolan
Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
— Nolan Bushnell
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
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
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
'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
Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
— Joe Morgenstern
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
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
Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get -Dolores Nolan
— Stephanie Perkins
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
— Christopher Nolan
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
— Nolan Ryan
It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.
— Jonathan Nolan
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
— Nolan Bushnell
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
— Christopher Nolan
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
— Nolan Bushnell
'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind.
— Nolan Sotillo
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
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
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.
— Nolan Ryan
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
And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there.But we cannot touch. — Stephanie Perkins
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
— Christopher Nolan
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
— Nolan Bushnell
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
— Nolan Bushnell
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
— Jonathan Nolan
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
I've always been a tech-head.
— Nolan Bushnell
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
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
— Christopher Nolan
Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
— Christopher J. Nolan
Lists are the only way out of this mess.
— Jonathan Nolan
When the critics come around it's always too late.
— Sidney Nolan
I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.
— Jonathan Nolan
Why bother reading something that you won't remember?
— Jonathan Nolan
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
— Christopher Nolan
Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.
— Nolan Ryan
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
I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.
— Nolan Bushnell
I asked him if he wanted to play music but he refused. He said that the only thing he wanted to hear was the pleasure of my moans.
— Shanora Williams
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
— Jonathan Nolan
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
— Christopher Nolan
I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
— Jonathan Nolan
I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.
— Jonathan Nolan
Chris Nolan is an amazing director.
— Tom Lister Jr.
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
— Jonathan Nolan
Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.
— Rebecca Phillips
I'd love to design a school.
— Nolan Bushnell
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
— Steven Soderbergh
I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.
— Jonathan Nolan
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
— Nolan Bushnell
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
— Nolan Gould
Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.
— Martin Nolan
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
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
— Christopher Nolan