Christopher Nolan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.”

“By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.”

“I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.”

“I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.”

“No, I've only ever done one film at a time.”

“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.”

“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.”