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Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
British Director
Born: Jul 30, 1970
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When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. Christopher Nolan
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But 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
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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. Christopher Nolan
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The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. Christopher Nolan
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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
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For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable. Christopher Nolan
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The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography. Christopher Nolan
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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. Christopher Nolan
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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
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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
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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. Christopher Nolan
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I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated. Christopher Nolan
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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. Christopher Nolan
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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
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I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. Christopher Nolan
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I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story. Christopher Nolan
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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
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. Christopher Nolan
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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really. Christopher Nolan
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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
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As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. Christopher Nolan
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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
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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
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