Christopher Nolan

“You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity.”

“Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”

“The best way to sneak a new idea into the world is to wrap it in an old one.”

“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

“Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.”

“Our memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record.”

“Don't try to understand it. Feel it.”

“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy.”

“Theory will only take you so far.”

“It's the sense of an ending that gives meaning to the story.”

“What is the most resilient parasite? An idea.”

“Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

“I've always believed that if you're going to make a film, you should make it for the big screen.”

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.”

“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow.”