Christopher Nolan

“The fact that we have mutual respect is what, to some extent, defines civilization. I don’t think that’s something that can be entirely imposed by, for example, a religious framework,”

“For us, it was just the sheer magnitude of it's 'The Odyssey,' it should be hard. We're going to go out there and we're going to make it as well as we can,”

“making films on the big screen is very much an attempt to get back to that experience that I had as a kid.”

“So you have to ask the actors on a longer scene to just stay in the emotional state that they're in, however intense that is, and then you quietly reload the camera and keep everybody focused and then start the scene again.”

“I make films for audiences, for the theater, for the cinema, and so for me, the movie's really not done until the audience kind of tells me what it is. That's what completes the film. It's exciting, but it's scary,”

“He loves trying out new things that he hadn’t done before, same as myself. We like to spend a lot of time in real places, on real locations, having stuff in front of the camera that is tangible and tactile.”

“When you shoot on IMAX, you have to think a lot about where you put your camera, because it's so big, it's difficult to move. And you don't have zoom lenses,”

“I’ve had an image of that horse sinking into the sand in my head for 20 years.”

“When I was briefly attached to direct Troy, I did a lot of thinking about the Trojan Horse and how I would portray that and make it credible,”

“after years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”

“And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in filmmaking it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time.”

“They see it for what it is very quickly — and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well,”

“I always want to feel like I can give them an experience they haven’t had before,”

“I re-filmed them off the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would notice”

“I think it has to be innate in us for that to be as prevalent and as effective as it has been over thousands of years.”

“The film is huge. … So after each, sort of just under three minutes, you run out of film,”

“to do the whole thing on IMAX.”

“These are great actors. You could stick them in front of a green screen and they'd do amazing,”

“I try not to over-analyze myself too much when choosing projects,”

“It’s definitely filmmaking in its purest form,”

“These guys – Odysseus’ crew – learned how to row the thing,”

“but I went off to Batman instead, so it all worked out fine.”

“But this was a massive creative challenge,”

“But you're also trying to make the most involving, the most extreme version of a story possible.”

“pushed pretty hard on this one and maybe found some limits.”

“It needed to be challenging to all of us because that's the nature of the story.”