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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

~Christopher Nolan

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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

~Christopher Nolan

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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

~Christopher Nolan

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For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

~Christopher Nolan

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When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

~Christopher Nolan

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But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

~Christopher Nolan

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I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.

~Christopher Nolan

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The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

~Christopher Nolan

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No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

~Christopher Nolan

Topics: Done Ever Film Only Time

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To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

~Christopher Nolan

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: June 30th, 1970

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