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“Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.”

— Donald Miller

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Donald Miller Quote: “Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.”

“Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.”

— Donald Miller

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1. “Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”

— Christopher Nolan

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2. “A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”

— Christopher Nolan

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3. “Every great story deserves a great ending.”

— Christopher Nolan

4. “You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.”

— Christopher Nolan

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5. “You musn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”

— Christopher Nolan

6. “A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.”

— Christopher Nolan

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7. “I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you’ve seen them.”

— Christopher Nolan

8. “If you’re going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject’s mind. Subtle art.”

— Christopher Nolan

9. “Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”

— Christopher Nolan

10. “I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today’s movies. They believe everything they’re hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

— Christopher Nolan

11. “I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing.”

— Christopher Nolan

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12. “One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.”

— Christopher Nolan

13. “People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That’s the trick.”

— Christopher Nolan

14. “I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.”

— Christopher Nolan

15. “I never considered myself a lucky person. I’m the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”

— Christopher Nolan

16. “We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.”

— Christopher Nolan

17. “I’ve been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that’s always interested me.”

— Christopher Nolan

18. “When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.”

— Christopher Nolan

19. “My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.”

— Christopher Nolan

20. “I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.”

— Christopher Nolan

21. “I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.”

— Christopher Nolan

22. “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

23. “I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we’ve been given.”

— Christopher Nolan

24. “Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.”

— Christopher Nolan

25. “Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you’re too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

— Christopher Nolan

26. “Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.”

— Christopher Nolan

27. “I realized that if you’re trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it’s mostly from my own process, my own experience.”

— Christopher Nolan

28. “I’ve been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I’ve wanted to do a film about them for a long time.”

— Christopher Nolan

29. “My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don’t know everything about, and you don’t know every plot turn and every character movement that’s going to happen.”

— Christopher Nolan

30. “The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”

— Christopher Nolan

31. “Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn’t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.”

— Christopher Nolan

32. “The term ‘genre’ eventually becomes pejorative because you’re referring to something that’s so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

— Christopher Nolan

33. “I’ve done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.”

— Christopher Nolan

34. “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

35. “For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He’s not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he’s a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.”

— Christopher Nolan

36. “There’s very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that’s sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.”

— Christopher Nolan

37. “When you’re dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.”

— Christopher Nolan

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

— Christopher Nolan

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I’ve always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.”

— Christopher Nolan

42. “By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.”

— Christopher Nolan

43. “In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there’s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you’re trying to break into the film industry, it’s definitely a bad thing.”

— Christopher Nolan

44. “I’m very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it’s becoming a choice – and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.”

— Christopher Nolan

45. “The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it’s you being on top of everything, you’re actually relying massively on the people around you.”

— Christopher Nolan

46. “You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.”

— Christopher Nolan

47. “I made ‘Batman’ the way I made every other film, and I’ve done it to my own satisfaction – because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.”

— Christopher Nolan

48. “We shouldn’t be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.”

— Christopher Nolan

49. “I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.”

— Christopher Nolan

50. “I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources.”

— Christopher Nolan

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