“By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.” Quote by Frank Grillo
“I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.” PeopleFeelsYearsChildrenOpportunityBlessedAllowingRespondingLandingGiddy Author:Frank Grillo
“I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.” TryingMindUseUsedUniverseFiguresInstrumentsFascinatingTelescopes Author:Jonathan Nolan
“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.” IfsThinkingKindRunningCertainParentCommonSituationExtremesGoodbyeCommon Denominator Author:Jonathan Nolan
“Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.” GreaterMankindExpectations Author:Jonathan Nolan
“I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching.” FirstsChildrenRealKidsRememberSpaceClassNewsRemember WhenConfrontationSpace Travel Author:Jonathan Nolan
“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.” ThinkingNeedsHumansImportantHuman BeingsConquerComplacentStagnant Author:Jonathan Nolan
“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsDifferentSchoolTogetherJobsTurnsSpaceClassNeededSkillsBuiltProgramGoldTragedyMathPracticalsGradesPreparingMemorialReally CoolSpaceshipsDifferent JobsSpace ProgramSchool YearsPractical Skills Author:Jonathan Nolan
“I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.” ThinkingNeedsMatterSpaceProgramFinalsSuspensionSpace Program Author:Jonathan Nolan
“You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.” HumansMomentsAgeFilmCertainRealizingBornGoneGrewMoonSpeechGrew UpRocketsNo MoneyNolan Author:Jonathan Nolan
“We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.” ThinkingKnowsHumansKindNextLevelsStepsPlanetsEvolutionMoonAll KindsMarsNext StepsInevitabilityHuman Evolution Author:Jonathan Nolan