Will Nolan Quotes
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.
I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don’t think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it’s lonely, and I don’t want to be lonely. I don’t want to be alone.
And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.
I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.
To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.
I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.
I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself.
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.
I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.
I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.
One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.
When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.
For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.
I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
