Christopher Nolan Quotes

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really involved in all aspects of filmmaking.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or two places where I had trouble divorcing myself from the reality of the locations because it was filmed in Chicago, and I know that city quite well.

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.