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

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Christopher Nolan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 30
Actor
Camera Operator
Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editing
Film Editor
Film Producer
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London
England
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan
Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan
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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.
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Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.
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I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
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It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.
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The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
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People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
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To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.
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I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources
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Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
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There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.
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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
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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.
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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.
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A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.
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Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
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Memory can change the shape of a room it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
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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.
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To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
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