#art

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#better #better looking #cheaper #extremely #far

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. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#enjoy #film #films #i #i think

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#artists #away #complete #completes #never

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#concept #especially #exists #idea #interesting

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#bit #enjoy #fall #honest #i

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#always #amount #because #discover #discovered

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#begins #context #mentors #other #seniors

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#best #breathes #him #instinctively #know

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#ancient #brain #eat #eats #everything

Part of courage is simple consistency. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#courage #part #simple