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
photography believer
I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.
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.
I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.
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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.
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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To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.
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'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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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.
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My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.