Christopher Nolan

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July 30, 1970 in London, England, The United Kingdom

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Film

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Stanley Kubrick
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Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British-American[4] film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing such critically acclaimed films as Memento (2000), the remake Insomnia (2002), the film adaptation The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and rebooting the Batman film franchise. The latter made him the second most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind David Yates. Nolan is the founder of the production company Syncopy Films.

He often collaborates with his wife, producer Emma Thomas, and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, as well...more

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Books by Christopher Nolan

Average rating: 4.05 · 650 ratings · 82 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan (Preface), Jonah Nolan (Preface) 4.51 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Memento & Following 4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Inception: The Cobol Job by Christopher Nolan (creator), Jordan Goldberg (writer), Long Vo (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings	My rating:
	Unknown Book 7629797 by Christopher Nolan, Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano (Primary Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	The Dark Knight by Dennis O'Neil, Jonathan Nolan (Screenplay by), Christopher Nolan 3.60 avg rating — 144 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman Begins by Dennis O'Neil, David S. Goyer (Screenplay by), Christopher Nolan 3.74 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Prestige - Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Priest, Christopher Nolan 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Batman: Cover to Cover: The Greatest Comic Book Covers of the Dark Knight by Robert Greenberger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neal Adams, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Dark Knight Overture: With Optional Duet Accompaniment by Zimmer Hans (Composer), James Newton Howard, Tom Gerou 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Quotes by Christopher Nolan

“Now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it...because you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
― Christopher Nolan

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“Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”
― Christopher Nolan

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“ARIADNE: Why are they looking at me?
COBB: Because you're changing things. My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections converge on you.
ARIADNE: Converge?
COBB: They feel the foreign nature of the dreamer, and attack-like white blood cells fighting an infection.
ARIADNE: They're going to attack us?
COBB: Just you, actually.”
― Christopher Nolan, Inception: The Shooting Script

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