The Best Christopher Nolan quotes

No, I’ve only ever done one film at a time. — Christopher Nolan

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. — Christopher Nolan

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

If you have the time to give time some time, won’t be a time that you will curse the time. — Soman Gouda

Some men just want to watch the world burn. — Christopher J. Nolan

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. — Christopher Nolan

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended. — Christopher Nolan

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. — Christopher J. Nolan

When you’re dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire. — Christopher Nolan

I’ve always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. — Christopher Nolan

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

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

We shouldn’t be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel. — Christopher Nolan

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. — Christopher Nolan

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don’t tend to be emotionally engaging. — Christopher Nolan

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

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 made ‘Batman’ the way I made every other film, and I’ve done it to my own satisfaction–because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. — Christopher Nolan

I would never say someone’s else’s film isn’t ‘a real film.’ The quote is inaccurate. — Christopher Nolan

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. — Christopher Nolan

On ‘Following’) We’ve got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made. — Christopher J. 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

It’s difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you’ve even made it. — Christopher 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

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

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

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. — Christopher Nolan

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

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

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

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness. — Christopher Nolan

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you’re too self–conscious about it, you make mistakes. — Christopher Nolan

I’ve done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film–goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way. — Christopher Nolan

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. — Christopher Nolan