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Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
Jonathan Nolan
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Jonathan Nolan
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 6
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Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.
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Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
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For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.
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I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, What can we shoot that looks fantastic?, rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.
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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.
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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
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Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.
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None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.
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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.
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Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
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One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.
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For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
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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.
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One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.
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I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.
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Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.
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