I don’t want to sound too precious about it at all, but, you know, I wanted to do something that frightened me a bit.
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Christopher Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan (; born 30 July 1970) is an English-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century. Having made his directorial debut with Following (1998), Nolan gained considerable attention for his second feature, Memento (2000), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The acclaim garnered by his independent films gave Nolan the opportunity to make the big-budget thriller Insomnia (2002) and the mystery drama The Prestige (2006). He found further popular and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012); Inception (2010), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture and a second Original Screenplay nomination; Interstellar (2014) and Dunkirk (2017). His ten films have grossed over US$4.7 billion worldwide and garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations and seven wins. Nolan has co-written several of his films with his brother, Jonathan, and runs the production company Syncopy Inc. with his wife, Emma Thomas. Nolan's films are rooted in philosophical, sociological and ethical concepts, exploring human morality, causality, the construction of time, and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. His body of work is permeated by materialistic perspectives, labyrinthine plots, nonlinear storytelling, practical special effects, and analogous relationships between visual language and narrative element
It only has to work once.
Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.
I'm not afraid of death. I'm an old physicist - I'm afraid of time.
I worked out the message. One word. Know what it is? Stay. It says stay, Dad.
Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.
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.
She's out there. Setting up camp. Alone, in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now she's settling in for the long nap. At the light of our new sun. In our new home.
What is the point of all those push-ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?
Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.
Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
But a criminal is not complicated. What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things.
Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol…as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.
If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.
It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.
What was the point of all those push-ups if you can’t even lift up a bloody log?
I won’t kill you…but I won’t have to save you.