Top 31 Quotes by 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.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.