Christopher Nolan Quotes

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

When I shoot a film, I take my camera and put it among the characters and let it show you their world, their problems, their happiness and the little things that matter to them.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.