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Christopher Nolan Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.”
— Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
Tagged: Behavior
“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
“If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Manliness, Ideal
“What was the point of all those push-ups if you can’t even lift up a bloody log?”
— Alfred Pennyworth, Batman Begins
Tagged: Push-Ups, strength training
“You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.”
— Jor-El, Man of Steel
Tagged: Earth, alien abduction movies
“But a criminal is not complicated. What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things.”
— Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
Tagged: criminal, Fear, Anger
“Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.”
— Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
Tagged: Compassion, Weakness
“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
“If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Justice, Stab, Direct Action
“ 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
“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
“Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.”
— Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
Tagged: Behavior
“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
“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
“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
“I don’t want to sound too precious about it at all, but, you know, I wanted to do something that frightened me a bit.”
— Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan’s Latest Time-Bending Feat? ‘Dunkirk’
Tagged: Fear, Embracing What Scares You, Movies, Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, World War II
“I won’t kill you…but I won’t have to save you.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Mercy, Murder, Salvation
“The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Stealing, Right And Wrong
“The training is nothing! Will is everything!”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Training, Will Power, Pushing Forward
“Would you like to see my mask?”
— Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow, Batman Begins
Tagged: Mask
“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
“I broke you. How have you come back?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: broke, Return, rise, Confused, Persistence, perseverance, Hero
“Victory has defeated you.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: victory, Defeat, Ironic, Loss, Contextual Quotes
“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol…as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Symbols, incorruptible, dramatic, Apathy, Everlasting
“It only has to work once.”
— Professor John Brand, Interstellar
Tagged: Work, Succeed, Efforts
“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
“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
“So you came back to die with your city?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: City, Gotham, Home, Die, Threat
“Do you feel in charge?”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: Negging, Intimidating, In Charge, Control, Rhetorical Question
“Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Criminals, Indulgence
“Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.”
— Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
Tagged: Hunger, criminal
“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
“Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”
— Dr. Amelia Brand, Interstellar
Tagged: Inspirational
“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
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