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

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

- Jonathan Nolan

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

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

- Jonathan Nolan

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy…

- Jonathan Nolan

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

- Jonathan Nolan