I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.
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
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
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the pow… - Christopher Nolan
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the pow…
Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the c… - Christopher Nolan
Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the c…
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them. - Christopher Nolan
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. - Christopher Nolan
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. - Christopher Nolan
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up. - Christopher Nolan
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
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
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.
Every great story deserves a great ending - Christopher Nolan
Every great story deserves a great ending
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