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May 24, 2013
1:16:15am
You do better when you just state your case rather then throw credentials around
It just turns people off to whatever point you are trying to make. As if your opinion is more valid then theirs.

There are many film aficionados that would disagree with you. People that have studied film, worked in the industry, understand mise en scene. There is a reason Nolan has been selected have a film in the Criterion collection as well as write for them. There is a reason why an artist like Terrence Malick selected Nolan (along with Fincher) to do a featurette on Tree of Life.

"You look at what Christopher Nolan did with Batman, that's like the meeting of the highest level of artistic skill & a kind of commerciality and appeal to a wide range of people which is what anybody would want. It's kind of unparalleled actually, and they don't come to me with those. And that's alright."
Paul Thomas Anderson

"In the past I would've said, 'Oh, I don't catch up with modern filmmaking.' But that's not true anymore. I've actually been seeing a lot of modern films in the past few years. There's a lot of Iranian films I like. And the younger American directors--Wes Anderson's films, I really like. Chris Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Linklater. When I see films by these guys, and I'm not mentioning all the names I want to mention, I feel like I'm not wasting my time. This film means something to me. I'm also learning how to tell a story with pictures. In some cases, I can never do what they do because they're of this modern world, I'm not. I'm from the past."
Martin Scorsese

"There are a lot of very talented guys here. David O. Russell has made four remarkable films in a row. Christopher Nolan, with films like Memento, is dazzling in the things he is willing to do."
Francis Ford Coppola

"Christopher Nolan.. I think he's one of my favourite filmmakers working right now. I love his movies."
Rian Johnson

"In a way, I was totally astonished by The Dark Knight because, on the one hand, it's a huge, mainstream movie. But it also astonished me at how dark it was, as though it was a premonition of something coming at us. I went to see the film, and ran into Christian Bale, which was the only reason I saw the film: I wanted to see how Christian was doing, because I so love that man, as an actor. I ran into Christian and (director) Christopher Nolan, and said to Nolan 'Congratulations, this is the most significant film of the whole year.' He thought I was kind of making it up, or joking. And I said 'No, no, no! This is a film of real substance. It doesn't matter if it's mainstream or not.' And it's wonderful that he made the film the way he did."
Werner Herzog

"The Dark Knight, for instance, is a hugely successful film, and it's also one of the best films of the last 10 years. Its themes and its darkness and its creative ambitions are absolutely huge, but of course it's a gigantic and popular Batman movie. There are ways you can do this, but you have to engage with genre, you have to be offering a broad audience an identifiable experience that they can understand and will offer them the promise of being rewarded as a cinematic experience, then you have to give them that reward."
Paul Greengrass

"I loved Inception, and I wish that it had gotten more, I wish Chris Nolan had gotten nominated for directing that film because I think that it's the most astounding piece of film creation and direction of the year, hands down ... but now it's not even in the running. So I diverge from the Academy's taste in a lot of ways."
James Cameron

"I called Warner Bros. and said, 'I really think you should hire this guy to do (Insomnia)'; I pushed hard,". "Then, they asked if I wanted to come on board as a producer, and I said yes."
Steven Soderbergh

"In terms of what [Nolan] achieved, specifically 'The Dark Knight,' the second movie, what it achieved, which is something exceptional. It was a game changer for everybody," he explained about how it influenced his approach.
"We're now in an industry where movies are very small or very big and there's almost nothing in the middle," he continued. "And it would be a tragedy if all the serious movies were very small and all the popcorn movies were very big and have nothing to say. And what Nolan proved was that you can make a huge movie that is thrilling and entertaining and has a lot to say about the world we live in, even if, in the case with 'The Dark Knight,' it's not even set in our world. If felt like a movie that was about our world post-9/11 and played on our fears and discussed our fears and why they existed and I thought that was incredibly brave and interesting."
Sam Mendes
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