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

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

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

- Jonathan Nolan

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

- 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

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

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