“I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)”
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Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer. Noted for the innovative structure of both his noirish, cerebral debut film **Following** (1998) and its follow-up, the equally unconventional and heady **Memento** (2000), London-born filmmaker Christopher Nolan has shown a unique talent for creating involving films containing concepts based on abstract breaks with conventional behavior and idealism. Dubbed meta-noir by critics at a loss for words to describe its psychologically demanding, high-concept yet low-key journey into the mind of a man seeking revenge but lacking the ability to create new memories, Memento became the basis of lively discussion and debate among critics and audiences hungering for something thoughtful among a flurry of countless computer-generated pseudo-thrills and all-too-familiar gross-out comedies. [Go to Complete Biography »][1] (source: All Movie Guide) [1]: http://movies.nytimes.com/person/240025/Christopher-Nolan/biography
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“I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)”
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“But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult...”
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“As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer th...”
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“I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.”
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“For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it'...”
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“I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just complet...”
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“You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensib...”
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“The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography...”
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“Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.”
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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...”
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“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.”
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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 c...”
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“For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more l...”
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“But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so tha...”
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“I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.”
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“We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out...”
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“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”
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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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“I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceivin...”
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“But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perce...”
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