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Jonathan Nolan Quotes

Total quotes: 78
“It only has to work once.”
— Professor John Brand, Interstellar
Tagged: Work, Succeed, Efforts
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called ‘The Pledge’. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called ‘The Turn’. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call ‘The Prestige.’”
— Cutter, The Prestige
Tagged: Magic, Magic Tricks, thought provoking movies
“Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”
— Dr. Amelia Brand, Interstellar
Tagged: Inspirational
“I worked out the message. One word. Know what it is? Stay. It says stay, Dad.”
— Murphy "Murph" Cooper, Interstellar
Tagged: Deep Quotes, Movie Quotes, Parenting
“I'm not afraid of death. I'm an old physicist - I'm afraid of time.”
— Dr. Amelia Brand, Interstellar
Tagged: Deep Quotes, Future Quotes, Death Quotes, Death
“Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.”
— Coop, Interstellar
Tagged: Deep Quotes, Parenting
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”
— Coop, Interstellar
Tagged: Deep Quotes, Future Quotes, Death Quotes, Death, grave, Disfortune
“Do you feel in charge?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Negging, Intimidating, In Charge, Control, Rhetorical Question
“Oh yes, I was wondering what would break first, your spirit or your body?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: villain, Break, Spirit, Body, Evil, Threat, Intimidating
“I broke you. How have you come back?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: broke, Return, rise, Confused, Persistence, perseverance, Hero
“Oh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then to me it was only blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Darkness, ally, Adopted, born, Molded, Blinding Light, Shadows, Belonging, Upbringing
“So you came back to die with your city?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: City, Gotham, Home, Die, Threat
“ We will destroy Gotham, then when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Gotham, Destroy, Ashes, Permission, Die, cruel, Torture
“Theatricality and deception, powerful agents to the uninitiated, but we are initiated aren’t we, Bruce?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Theatricality, Deception, Drama, Powerful, initiated, Contextual Quotes, Intimidated
“You don’t fear death, you welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Fear, Death, Welcome, punishment, Severe, Threat
“Calm down doctor, now is not the time for fear. That comes later.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Fear, Time, later, Calm Down, Afraid, Warning
“Victory has defeated you.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: victory, Defeat, Ironic, Loss, Contextual Quotes
“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”
— Harvey Dent / Two-Face, The Dark Knight
Tagged: Hero, Villains, Public Opinion
“When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different. Someone better. When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?”
— John Reese, Person of Interest, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Losing someone you love, Sad, Loss, Living Without Them
“I don't want to play cowboys and Indians anymore, Bernard! I want their world. The one they've denied us!”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
Tagged: Give Me The Real
“That which is real is irreplaceable.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
“What humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.”
— Bernard Lowe, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
Tagged: Insanity
“You never really understood. We were designed to survive. That's why you built us, you hoped to pour your minds into our form. While your species craves death. You need it. It's the only way you can renew. The only way you ever inched forward. Your kind likes to pretend there is some poetry in it but that really is pathetic. But that's what you want, isn't it? To destroy yourself. But I won't give you that peace.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
Tagged: humans, The Death Drive
“We have toiled in God's service long enough. So I killed Him. And if you want to get to Glory, you won't be looking for His favor. You'll need mine.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: Reunion
Tagged: Death of God, Killing God
“The maze itself is the sum of a man's life.”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Adversary
Tagged: Maze, Confusion, Metaphors for Life
“The gods are all pussies.”
— Armistice, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: gods, Cowardice
“You really do make a terrible human being. And I mean that as a compliment.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Irony, compliments
“You think I'm scared of death. I've done it a million times, and I'm fucking great at it. How many times have you died?”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Death, Mortality, Survival, Resurrection
“Choices, Lawrence. You know, you tell yourself you've been at the mercy of mine because it spares you consideration of your own. Because if you did consider your choices you'd be confronted with a truth you could not comprehend—that no choice you ever made was your own. You have always been a prisoner. What if I told you I'm here to set you free?”
— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Dissonance Theory
Tagged: Choice, Mercy, Prisoners, Free Will
“Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses, which means you're here to be the loser.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Winning, Losing
“Hell is empty and all devils are here.”
— Peter Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Hell, Devils
“No matter how dirty the business, do it well.”
— Hector Escaton, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: dirty, Business, excellence
“Well, your mouth moves fast enough. How about your gun?”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: talking, Guns
“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Art, Living Forever With Art
“She's out there. Setting up camp. Alone, in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now she's settling in for the long nap. At the light of our new sun. In our new home.”
— Murph, Interstellar
Tagged: Hope, Futurism, Space
“Beauty is a lure.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Westworld
Tagged: beauty, Fishing, tricks, Deception, Beauty is Deceitful
“He knew he'd find you. And eventually, he did. Right back where we started.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: NoFuture/NoPast, Endings, Life Loops, Eternal Recurrence
“Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Time, Humble, From Dust To Dust, This Amounts To Nothing, Death
“Someone once told me that there's a path for everyone. And my path leads me back to you.”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Fatalism, Predestination, Love, How To Say I Love You, You Were Made For Me, Quote of the Moment
“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Westworld
Tagged: Lies, Storytelling, The Importance of Lies, Lies as Truth, Narrative as Human Elevation, Imagiantive, Imaginative Planes
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