Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan "Jonah" Nolanis a British-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author. He is the creator of the crime drama series Person of Interest. He has co-written several screenplays with his elder brother, filmmaker Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar, and his short story "Memento Mori" was the basis for Memento...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
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I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
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I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.
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I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
I'm not a big fan of visual effects.
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I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.
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I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.
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In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.
people
It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.
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I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.
work
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.
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I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.