Jonathan Nolan

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.