Jonathan Nolan

“It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.”

“Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.”

“Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.”

“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.”

“With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.”

“Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.”

“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.”

“Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.”

“I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.”

“'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.”

“I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.”

“I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.”

“I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.”

“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.”

“I'm a big, big, big techno dork.”

“In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.”

“When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.”

“I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.”

“My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.”

“To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.”