Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards

by Christopher Nolan

One was a simple way of visualizing the decay of a farming community or the ability to be able to farm. And the other key point is from watching Ken Burns’s documentary The Dust Bowl, which is incredible if you haven’t seen it because it is science fiction. It seems like science fiction. You cannot believe the images you’re seeing, the real images. The descriptions are heartbreaking and amazing, but you’re looking at pictures and film of things that if you put them in a movie, directly, people wouldn’t believe it. When we do the dust clouds and the dust storms in the film they are toned down from the real imagery because the real imagery would never be believed. And that really happened.

that eventually led us to actually incorporate some of Ken’s footage in the film as the real voices talking about the dust with the older Murph. I really like the idea of saying that the most threatening and outlandish visual idea of the first act has already happened in real life. It’s not even under question.

Einstein’s thought experiments ultimately always involved two people on a train, or twin brothers with one headed into space – any attempt to understand general relativity seems to come back to this personal scale because it’s how we see the universe. We are our own instrument for measuring the universe – ourselves, our life spans, our senses, and our relationships. And our understanding of our mortality is built through those relationships.

Interstellar isn’t about an antagonist. The antagonist is the universe.

why is it that humans are so obsessed with not just the idea of their own Armageddon, but their own culpability in it.

Fine. Murph, you wanna talk science, don’t just tell me you’re scared of some ghost – record the facts, analyze, present your conclusions.

Actor’s improvisation? In the movie: DONALD Repopulating the Earth - start pulling your weight, young man. COOPER Start minding your business, old man.

We used to look up and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.