Will Nolan Quotes
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.
A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.
You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.
My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.
Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.
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.
I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.
Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
