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Jonathan Nolan Quotes

Total quotes: 44
“When you find that one person who connects you to the world, you become someone different. Someone better. When that person is taken from you, what do you become then?”
— John Reese, Person of Interest, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Losing someone you love, Sad, Loss, Living Without Them
“When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, The Meaning of Pain
“Beauty is a lure.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Westworld
Tagged: beauty, Fishing, tricks, Deception, Beauty is Deceitful
“This is the new world and in it you can be whoever the fuck you want.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Play Pretend, Adventure, Rebirth, Identity, Start Over
“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
“I don't want to play cowboys and Indians anymore, Bernard! I want their world. The one they've denied us!”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
Tagged: Give Me The Real
“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Art, Living Forever With Art
“ 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
“Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Original
Tagged: Westworld
“Your mind is a walled garden. Even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there.”
— Dr. Robert Ford,
Tagged: Westworld
“He knew he'd find you. And eventually, he did. Right back where we started.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: NoFuture/NoPast, Endings, Life Loops, Eternal Recurrence
“Ever had something on the tip of your tongue, but the harder you try to remember it, the more it slips away?”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Dissonance Theory
Tagged: Memory, Trying To Remember, So Close
“Never start something you’re not willing to finish. And if you’re getting fucked either way, go with the lucrative version sweetheart.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Adversary
Tagged: Advice, Commitment, See It Through
“I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Burden of Thought, Consciousness
“You think I'm scared of death. I've done it a million times, and I'm fucking great at it. How many times have you died?”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Death, Mortality, Survival, Resurrection
“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
“The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words. Then we create life itself… out of chaos.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Westworld
“I used to think this place was all about pandering to your baser instincts. Now I understand. It doesn’t cater to your lowest self, it reveals your deepest self. It shows you who you really are.”
— William, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Westworld
“Dreams mean everything. They’re the stories we tell ourselves of what could be, who we could become.”
— Dr. Robert Ford,
Tagged: Westworld
“The real world is chaos. An accident. But in here every detail adds up to something.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Fake Realties, Argument For Why Illusion is Better Than Reality
“They're not looking for a story that tells them who they are. They already know who they are. They're here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Identitiy, Who We Are, Self-Discovery, fiction, Rebirth
“Someone once told me that there's a path for everyone. And my path leads me back to you.”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: Fatalism, Predestination, Love, How To Say I Love You, You Were Made For Me, Quote of the Moment
“That which is real is irreplaceable.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Season 2: The Passenger
“Victory has defeated you.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Tagged: victory, Defeat, Ironic, Loss, Contextual Quotes
“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
“That’s what I love about this place, all the secrets, all the little things I never noticed even after all these years. You know why this beats the real world, Lawrence? Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something.”
— The Man in Black, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Westworld
“Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Westworld
“Only boring people get bored.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Westworld
“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Evolutionary Psychology
“Well, your mouth moves fast enough. How about your gun?”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: talking, Guns
“The gods are all pussies.”
— Armistice, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Bicameral Mind
Tagged: gods, Cowardice
“We’ve managed to slip evolution’s leash now, haven’t we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we’re done, that this is as good as we’re going to get.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Original
Tagged: Westworld
“At first, I thought you and the others were gods. Then I realized you’re just men. And I know men. You think I’m scared of death? I’ve done it a million times. I’m fucking great at it. How many times have you died? Because if you don’t help me… I’ll kill you.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Westworld
“The pain, their loss… it’s all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn’t. I feel spaces opening up inside of me like a building with rooms I’ve never explored.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Dissonance Theory
Tagged: Westworld
“We speak the right words. Then we create life itself out of chaos.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: The Right Words, Creating Order, Langauge, Creativity, Power of Words
“My father used to say, only boring people get bored.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Chestnut
Tagged: Boring, What Boring People, clever
“The maze itself is the sum of a man's life.”
— Teddy Flood, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: The Adversary
Tagged: Maze, Confusion, Metaphors for Life
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