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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.