"But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong."

“If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.”

“I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.”

“Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success”

“He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.”

Source : "My MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium Commemorative Interview with Mickey Rivers". Interview with Dave Hollander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

“New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that”

“Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.”

“Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.”

“I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”

Source : "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.