Jonathan Nolan Quotes

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

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Girl
  • Days

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Art
  • Quality

• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Perfect
  • Humility

• Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • World
  • Job
  • Mother

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia

• The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • Family
  • Slavery

• Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Different
  • Immigration

• We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Lost

• As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Time
  • Father

• I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Good
  • Great
  • Real

• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Time
  • Beginning

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People

• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Pharaohs

• It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Decision
  • Film
  • Directors

• Your hate will be your bitter end.

  

  Jesus David Torres
  • Hate
  • Ends
  • Bitter

• I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Important
  • Challenge

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

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • Instrument