You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies. – Christopher Nolan
Ive been interested in dreams since I as a kid and Ive wanted to do a film about them for a long time. – Christopher Nolan
The term genre eventually becomes pejorative because youre referring to something thats so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. – Christopher Nolan
But in the back of my mind Ive always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if its done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. – Christopher Nolan
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg