Jonathan Nolan Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
June 6, 1976

Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is an English-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author. He is the creator of the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2011–2016) and co-creator of the HBO science fiction western series Westworld (2016–present).

Also known as Television Producer, Director, Author

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Jonathan Nolan
- Good
- Free
- Do It
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

Jonathan Nolan

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Jonathan Nolan
One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

Jonathan Nolan
- Show
- Answers
- Questions
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Jonathan Nolan
- Genius
- Minutes
- Becomes
Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Jonathan Nolan
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

Jonathan Nolan
None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.

Jonathan Nolan

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Jonathan Nolan
- Important
- Moment
- Privacy
Television is very different than working on film. 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
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Jonathan Nolan
- Lie
- Heal
- Wounds