Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

Dark

Hero

Knights

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

Believe

Lying

Nice

Books are a time machine.

Book

Machines

Time Machine

Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

Character

Ideas

New York

Even if you’re not a parent, you have parents and you’ve been in those situations where there’s a certain kind of goodbye – nothing this extreme exists, but I think that’s what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.

Goodbye

Running

Thinking

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

Gang

Idiot

Men

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Long

Optimistic

Waiting

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Genius

Men

Tragedy

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.

Character

Stories

Years

Here’s the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It’s not that simple. We’re all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.

Clouds

People

Simple

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Absurdity

Actors

Age

Answers

Axes

Believe

Bigs

Book

Change

Character

Children

Clouds

Dark

Degrees

Different

Discovering

Distance

Drama

Dream

Expansion

Expectations

Eye

Finals

Forget

Forgiving

Fun

Gang

Genius

Glitches

Gone

Goodbye

Greater

Hbo

Hero

Humans

Ideas

Idiot

Important

Instruments

Jobs

Just Saying

Kids

Knights

Littles

Location

Long

Looks

Lying

Machines

Mankind

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Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

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

Books are a time machine.

Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

Even if you’re not a parent, you have parents and you’ve been in those situations where there’s a certain kind of goodbye – nothing this extreme exists, but I think that’s what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.

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

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

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.

Here’s the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It’s not that simple. We’re all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.

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