Christopher Nolan Quotes
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.
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When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
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George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
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I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.
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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
