102 Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

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.

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.

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.

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.