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

One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class s…

- Jonathan Nolan

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

- Jonathan Nolan

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come an…

- Jonathan Nolan

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

- Jonathan Nolan

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

- 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

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