102 Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

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.

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.

Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

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".

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.

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

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.