Christopher Nolan Quotes
As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.
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I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.
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If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.
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For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.
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Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.
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As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.
