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

Christopher Nolan

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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
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London
England
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan
Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan
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There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.
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I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
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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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I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.
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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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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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I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.
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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.
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I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
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I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.
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A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
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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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I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
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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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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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A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
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