Jonathan Nolan Quotes

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

The film 'Back to the Future' certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it's gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.

I know a lot of people who hate the ending of 'Rosemary's Baby' and wish that it was left ambiguous.

I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.

This is the weirdest thing. I've been told one thing, that all these guys turned me down, x, y, z. I take to Twitter and some of these guys are like, 'Yeah, I'll take the fight,' then you don't hear anything of it for the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answer any questions, so what makes that ending so scary is you walk out feeling dirty because you don't even know what happened. It feels wrong.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

Everything can happen in tennis.

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

The reality of nostalgia is nowhere better invoked than at the end of Tarkovsky's 'Solaris.' When the camera pans away from Kelvin embracing his father on the rain-soaked steps of his dacha, we realise that the scene is yet another of the simulations produced by the inscrutable planet.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

The movie 'Scandal Makers' did so much better than I had thought. During that phase of my career, the people around me warned me that whatever goes up could always come back down.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

I had no idea about how my life would change after 'Fukrey.'

My loss to Marquardt was just one of those things. I made a mistake and got caught. I think I had a lot more to offer in that fight, but he caught me before I had a chance to show it.