With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I’ve always loved shows that combine both approaches – that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I grew up watching ‘Magnum, P.I.’ and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films – or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what’s on the other side of it. That’s in our nature. What’s also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss’ character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I’m just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
Wormholes don’t exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
Look at anyone’s bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you’re going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that’s at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
