152 Quotes by Christopher Nolan

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

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.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.