We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important. Jonathan Nolan More Quotes by Jonathan Nolan More Quotes From Jonathan Nolan Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away. Jonathan Nolan different character television Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one. Jonathan Nolan hbo wind character To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up. Jonathan Nolan tv-shows degrees people I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie. Jonathan Nolan would-be trying years I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it. Jonathan Nolan finals space thinking You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back. Jonathan Nolan moon age gone Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me. Jonathan Nolan mankind greater expectations It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything". Jonathan Nolan just-saying actors needs How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget? Jonathan Nolan forgiving forget remember Books are a time machine. Jonathan Nolan time-machine machines book For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. Jonathan Nolan genius tragedy men I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about. Jonathan Nolan littles talking people Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us. Jonathan Nolan nice believe lying Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. Jonathan Nolan absurdity moments matter We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt. Jonathan Nolan stars worry sky I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching. Jonathan Nolan real kids children Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight. Jonathan Nolan knights hero dark I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter. Jonathan Nolan dream writing order Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Jonathan Nolan simple clouds people I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant. Jonathan Nolan important needs thinking
