Nolan: "I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth."

Nolan: "Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine."

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

Nolan: "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."

Nolan: "I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from."

Nolan: "I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture."

Nolan: "I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite."

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."

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

Nolan: "Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one."

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

Nolan: "When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold."

Nolan: "It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make."