George Nolfi Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
June 10, 1968

George Nolfi is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He directed the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau, which he also wrote. Nolfi was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended James Hart Junior High School in Homewood, Illinois, and then Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, both in the south suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude with a bachelor's in public policy and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University. He completed some graduate work there in philosophy and then switched to the doctoral program in political science at UCLA.

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

George Nolfi
There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life.

George Nolfi
- Real
- Something
- Really

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

George Nolfi
- Want
- Kind
- Autonomy
The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

George Nolfi
- Work
- Movie
- Feeling
The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

George Nolfi
- Feeling
- Story
- Create
I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.

George Nolfi
- Want
- Something
- Chances