When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us,…

- Jonathan Nolan

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 …

- Jonathan Nolan

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

- Jonathan Nolan

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

- Jonathan Nolan

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested …

- Jonathan Nolan

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

- Jonathan Nolan

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

- Jonathan Nolan

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

- Jonathan Nolan

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

- Jonathan Nolan