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
believe good
I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
audience believer feels
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.
nice lying believe
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
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.
photography believer
I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
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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.
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To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.
grounded point possible science somewhere
When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.
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I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.
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One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.
earliest films super watching
My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.
love
I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.
When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.