Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million … - Jonathan Nolan

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I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Jonathan Nolan

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Abstraction, Keep, Matter, Million, Over You, Trying

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You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.

Axes, Axis, Close, Conjure, Eye, Moving

One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

Jobs, School, Math, Program, Built, Spent

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Arrives, Future, Gods, Long, Optimistic, Waiting

Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Character, Develop, Different, Television

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Movie, Money, Dark, Good, Free