Quotes from Jonathan Nolan

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.

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

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

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

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

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

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.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

'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.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

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

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.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

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.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.