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Christopher Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and producer renowned for his innovative storytelling and visual style. His films, such as "Inception," "The Dark Knight," and "Interstellar," have received critical acclaim and achieved significant box office success. He continues to influence modern cinema with his unique narrative techniques and ambitious projects. Here are 48 of his quotes:

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Christopher Nolan

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

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As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

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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.

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I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

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I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

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I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

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

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You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

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But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.

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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

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I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

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The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

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Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

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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.

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What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story. Other times, you're plotting it out with diagrams and taking a very objective view. Writing, for me, is a combination of both. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

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