Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan "Jonah" Nolanis a British-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author. He is the creator of the crime drama series Person of Interest. He has co-written several screenplays with his elder brother, filmmaker Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar, and his short story "Memento Mori" was the basis for Memento...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.
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Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.
Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.
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I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.
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My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.
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One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.
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When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.
When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.
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We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
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I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.
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I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
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I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.