Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. – Christopher Nolan
I never considered myself a lucky person. I’m the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. – Christopher Nolan
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. – Christopher Nolan
Yeah, it’s odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don’t look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I’ve done in terms of what I’m going to do in the future, mistakes I’ve made and things at work or what have you. – Christopher Nolan
In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there’s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you’re trying to break into the film industry, it’s definitely a bad thing. – Christopher Nolan
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. – Christopher Nolan
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world. – Christopher Nolan
I’ve always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. – Christopher Nolan
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who’s been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want. – Christopher Nolan
I sometimes think how strange it is that I’ve got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I’m making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you’re happy again. – Christopher Nolan
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It’s a pipeline that needs to be fed. – Christopher Nolan
I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. – Christopher Nolan
I’ve never read Joseph Campbell, and I don’t know all that much about story archetypes. – Christopher Nolan
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it. – Christopher Nolan
I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. ‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. – Christopher Nolan
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing. – Christopher Nolan
But ‘Memento’ was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I’d have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next. – Christopher Nolan
I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it. – Christopher Nolan
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. – Christopher Nolan
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. – Christopher Nolan
I made ‘Batman’ the way I made every other film, and I’ve done it to my own satisfaction – because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. – Christopher Nolan
I’ve been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I’ve wanted to do a film about them for a long time. – Christopher Nolan
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn’t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. – Christopher Nolan
