Christopher Nolan is an award-winning filmmaker who has been recognized for his work as a director, writer and producer. After making his feature film debut with the 16mm, black-and-white indie Following (1999), Nolan wrote and directed Memento (2001), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Original Screenplay. Nolan directed Al Pacino in his next film,Insomnia (2002), and then began working on the acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Nolan`s other credits as a producer, writer and director include The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), for which he received nominations for Original Screenplay and Best Picture, Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020).
His 2017 film, Dunkirk, was produced through Syncopy Films, the production company run by Nolan and producer Emma Thomas. Dunkirk was nominated for eight academy awards, including a nomination for Nolan and Thomas for Best Film and a nomination for Nolan for Best Directing.
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PERSONAL QUOTES
“there's a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it's a very clubby kind of place ... Never had any support whatsoever from the British film industry.”
“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”
“Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”
“Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there-I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.”
[regarding his canceled Howard Hughes film] “Luckily I managed to find another wealthy, quirky character who's orphaned at a young age.”
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