Christopher Nolan

“My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.”

“The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.”

“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.”

“I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.”

“Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.”

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

“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.”