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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To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.
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Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
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I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.
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I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.
believe good
I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
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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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Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
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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.
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People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
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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.
When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.
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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.