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
nice lying believe
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
distance looks virtue
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.
real world violence
None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.
forgiving remember forget
How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?
hero dark knights
Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
stars sky worry
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.
moving believer
I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.
book machines time-machine
Books are a time machine.
change drama book
The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.
men tragedy genius
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
fun people different
One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.
simple clouds people
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.
movie money dark
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
important may privacy
We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.