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born 1970 England

Christopher Edward Nolan CBE (born 30 July, 1970, in London, England) is a British-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films have grossed more than US$5 billion worldwide, and have garnered 11 Academy Awards from 36 nominations.

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Is there a moral lesson that you want people to see in “The Odyssey”?

But remember, I spent ten years dealing with Batman.

I do a lot of my best thinking in those kind of in-between moments that people now fill with online activity.

The ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for.

You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

When you think of the visual style, when you think of the visual language of a film there tends to be a natural separation of the visual style and the narrative elements, but with the great, whether it is Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick or Hitchcock what you're seeing is inseparable, a vital relationship between the images and the story he's telling.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Nolan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.