Will Nolan Quotes

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

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.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.