I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter. Jonathan Nolan More Quotes by Jonathan Nolan More Quotes From Jonathan Nolan TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going. Jonathan Nolan discovering marathon tvs I'm a big believer in practical and location photography. Jonathan Nolan location bigs photography For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good. Jonathan Nolan stories character years I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before. Jonathan Nolan space would-be fun We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step. Jonathan Nolan mars moon thinking I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. Jonathan Nolan paranoia revenge memories You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access. Jonathan Nolan expansion world ideas I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going. Jonathan Nolan taste people thinking We're gonna play a little bit of a game here [Person of Interest movie]. Greg and I felt like we had responsibility when we wrapped up the pilot, to have a roadmap for where the show went. When we pitched the pilot, we knew what we wanted the last episode to be, the last image, I think we even know what the last song is. Jonathan Nolan responsibility song thinking You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great experience and seamless experience. You'd also have security. So, we laid out the corporate structure, and then we cherry-picked from that the people who would be brought into the most conflict and the most day-to-day relationship with each other and with the hosts. Jonathan Nolan glitches quality people I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence. Jonathan Nolan artificial-intelligence intelligence I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth. Jonathan Nolan good i-believe earth believe 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. Jonathan Nolan conflict nature love children I'm a big, big, big techno dork. Jonathan Nolan big dork techno When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying. Jonathan Nolan things you ridiculous kind People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories. Jonathan Nolan whatever reason drama people 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. Jonathan Nolan name better you science 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. Jonathan Nolan future wisdom home time 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. Jonathan Nolan something own intelligence way I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid. Jonathan Nolan batman fan big kid
