Christopher Nolan

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 * Playboy: “Nolan’s unblinking gaze, rich vocabulary and agile mind make it clear that he is, indeed, the visionary who, in Inception, sent Leonardo DiCaprio through the City of Light as it folds in on itself. Volleying ideas with him can almost make one feel like a character in one of his films — absorbed, spooked and often a step or two behind. As he sipped cup after cup of Earl Grey tea, he let our conversation range from the nerdy (Brownian motion) to the playful (the irrefutable appeal of Harry Styles). He is averse to pettiness and bullshit, and though candid, he pumps the brakes when the conversation drifts outside his comfort zone. Several of his associates warned me that this interview would be ‘uncharted waters’ for a man as private as Nolan. But he navigated the sometimes choppy seas just fine.”
 * "As a director, I try to show people things they’ve never seen before."
 * "I've always been able to visualize what I want mentally, and I can lie there at night and cut the film in my head, one shot at a time, all the way through the whole thing."
 * "I approach structure from a very mathematical and geometric point of view."
 * “It takes time to learn how to take notes. In the corporate structure, the people giving you the notes are not responsible for the final product. You are. It’s not their job, it’s yours. When you’re taking notes, it’s possible that you’re having an interesting conversation with a very smart individual and everything they’re saying is correct. But they’re wrong. So you have to go back and approach it from a different angle.”
 * "I know enough about every job on set to sort of be a pain in the ass to everybody."
 * New York Times: "For Nolan, everything — the acting, the plot, the effects, the film technology, the sound — has to contribute to the weft of a film’s internal logic."