#we

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#answer #became #drift #films #go

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#aspiration #back #because #done #experience

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#also #always #away #because #been

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#cope #difficult #every #exactly #few

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

— Christopher Nolan

#dream #go #i #if i could #myself

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

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. ↗

— George Orwell

#dickens #stealing #those #well #who

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#helen #i #known #louis #morris

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential