“I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.” PeopleKindLittlesReasonStoriesFilmTalkingMessagesFilmmakerResonanceDidactic Author:Jonathan Nolan
“I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.” WorldNeedsWritingReasonStoriesDreamOrderProcessBrainSubjectsChaosAnarchyArchitectWriting ProcessGraphs Author:Jonathan Nolan
“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.” YearsCharacterStoriesLastsTvsAttractionLast Year Author:Jonathan Nolan
“One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.” PeopleDifferentMomentsStoriesBigsAbleFunTelevisionTvsRight NowExcitingCommitStorytellingExploringExplosionsExciting Things Author:Jonathan Nolan