Christopher Nolan Quotes

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.

You learn on every film so much.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

I'm always eager to work with people I admire, people who have experience, who've made mistakes and made great things. That's the greatest teaching I could ever get in developing my own career.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

Every film, regardless of being a success or a failure or anything in between, teaches you something. You might not sometimes realise what it taught you, but down the line, there would be a lesson in it.

All I need to worry about is have I done better than my previous film or not.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Use your past as one of your mentors.