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Christopher Nolan Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“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
“ 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
“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
“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
“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
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