If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.
Christopher NolanRead
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
Interpretation
A filmmaker has a duty to deliver high-quality work using the best technology available.
Christopher Nolan emphasizes the importance of filmmakers maintaining high standards in their work, especially when granted significant budgets. He believes that with such resources comes a responsibility to ensure that the audience receives a film made with the best technology and artistic intent, reflecting the filmmaker's vision and commitment to quality.
In practice
This quote can be used in a film industry seminar to highlight the importance of quality in filmmaking.
If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.
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's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
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 like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
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