When you’re doing a film called ‘Interstellar,’ at some point – the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible – but with a name like ‘Interstellar,’ you had better go somewhere big and bold. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas – to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I’d grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn’t have cameras on every street corner. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there’s a commitment there – an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits – there’s a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
I’m not a big believer in doing too much research – I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you’ve done your homework, the audience feels it. Jonathan Nolan Read Quote
