Jonathan Nolan

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.