Christopher Nolan > Quotes

“Bruce Wayne/Batman: 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 that the world hadn't ended.”
― Christopher Nolan

“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.”
― Christopher Nolan

“mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here”
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“It was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.”
― Christopher Nolan, Under The Eye of the Clock

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

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.”
― Christopher Nolan

“Restfully reassured by his new friends, Joseph now nominated God in a new light, 'Man is God hesitant and God is Man hesitantly trying to help.”
― Christopher Nolan, Under The Eye of the Clock

“Albert Einstein: So here we are, hmm? Lost in your quantum world of probabilities, and needing certainty.”
― Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer: The Official Screenplay

“The night is darkest before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.”
― Christopher Nolan

“How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.”
― Christopher Nolan

“Blind Prisoner: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'
Bruce Wayne: 'Why?'
Blind Prisoner: 'How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.'
Bruce Wayne: 'I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it.'
Blind Prisoner: 'Then make the climb.'
Bruce Wayne: 'How?'
Blind Prisoner: 'As the child did: without the rope. Then fear will find you again.”
― Christopher Nolan, The Dark Night Rises Script

“What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.”
― Christopher Nolan

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
― Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises: The Shooting Script

“Google is not as powerful as people think in terms of information collation. They’re more powerful than people realize in all kinds of areas, such as collecting data on your movements. They’re very good at that. But in a data search, the outcome is always limited. An interesting experiment would be to walk into a library, and go to a book, open the book at a random page, find a fact or piece of information, write it down. Do that ten times, and then go online and see how many of those ten you can find. Our feeling is that 90 percent of the information is online. I have a suspicion the real answer is 0.9 percent.”
― Christopher Nolan, Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 41

“What doesn't kill you only makes you...stranger. -The Joker”
― Christopher Nolan

“The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.”
― Christopher Nolan

“The scientific method, I think, is the highest philosophical height that mankind has ever produced. It seeks constantly to disprove itself. What other philosophy is there that does that?”
― Christopher Nolan

“Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
― Christopher Nolan

“Don't talk like you're one of them! You're not... even if you'd like to be. To them you're just a freak, like me. They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out. Like a leper. See, their morals, their "code"... it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these uh, these "civilized people", they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.”
― Christopher Nolan

“Tengo que creer en un mundo que existe fuera de mi cabeza; creer que mis actos tienen algun significado aunque yo no los recuerde; tengo que creer que cuando mis ojos están cerrados el mundo sigue ahí.”
― Christopher Nolan

“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

“Tú no buscas la verdad. Tú fabricas tu propia verdad. - Memento”
― Christopher Nolan

“Todos necesitamos espejos para recordarnos a nosotros mismos quienes somos. Yo no soy diferente - Memento”
― Christopher Nolan

“How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?”
― Christopher Nolan

“It's like we've forgotten who we are Donald: explorers, pioneers... not caretakers.”
― Christopher Nolan