152 Quotes by Christopher Nolan

I’ve been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that’s always interested me.

I don’t actually tend to do a lot of research when I’m writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

It’s always a fun collaboration with my brother. I’m very fortunate to be able to work with him. There’s an honesty to collaboration. There’s a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.

I’ve never read Joseph Campbell, and I don’t know all that much about story archetypes.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don’t tend to be emotionally engaging.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I’m the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It’s a pipeline that needs to be fed.