Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan is a British film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 July 1970
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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
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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.
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No, I've only ever done one film at a time.
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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 never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
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To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.