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How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 12:34 David Senra It's almost like a Christopher Nolan movie now I'm thinking of it.
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Christopher Nolan had just spent a long anxious year trying to secure distribution. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40 David Senra Among his collaborators, he is known for his punctuality, discipline, and secrecy. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Nolan Variations, The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, and it was written by Tom Schoen. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:09 David Senra So then he just goes into the fact that, hey, uh, I would say the main idea of the book, uh, is the fact that obsession is the engine for his entire career, and he'll, he's going to give a lot of his life energy into his craft, into his… 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 David Senra This is something that Nolan would repeat over and over again. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 David Senra Christopher Nolan is everything he's fascinated in goes back to his craft. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:28 David Senra So I want to touch on, most of this is really how Christopher Nolan thinks about work, which I think is applicable to, you know, all the businesses that you and I are building. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 David Senra And so his family, so his dad is from England. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 David Senra Nolan is going to be sitting in the dark. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 David Senra Now, there's another thing where he talks about his fascinations over and over again. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:07 David Senra So this is pretty crazy, because I think before Dunker came out, and I would say Inception is probably my favorite, uh, Christopher Nolan movie, but he worked, he had the ideas from the, the, the coming up with the idea for Inception. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 David Senra Now Nolan is in college, going to college, kind of doesn't even go to college. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 David Senra It says, after graduating, Nolan had applied to and was turned down by the National Film and Television School in England and the Royal College of Art, but he immediately found work as a camera operator in a small video shop, turning out… 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:01 David Senra So then we get into the fact that he goes to time, and he had written the original for his first movie. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 David Senra In Christopher Nolan's case, he's got a house in Los Angeles, ok? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 David Senra There, this other friend of his at the time is describing Christopher Nolan when Christopher Nolan was 27. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:34 David Senra At the time, Nolan's going around and trying to pitch his movie to a bunch of major studios, and he couldn't even get meetings, and so Steven Soderbergh, upon hearing of Nolan's difficulties getting a meeting with the executives of Warner… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:00 David Senra Another thing that's surprising about Nolan, it's a little different from a lot of people you 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:36 David Senra This has already been mentioned several times, but the fact that Nolan loves operating within constraints, he's making this movie, has a very tight budget of just forty million, and it says this tight budget enforces Nolan's favorite… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:35 David Senra Uh, so then we go back to, again, this is the year 2006, and it goes back to the fact that he's going to find the best way that he wants to work, and he's going to do that regardless of what the rest of his industry is doing. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:51 David Senra And so, there's this, really, he talked about the turning point of momentum being, you know, critically acclaimed. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:47 David Senra So, and you can see how he, like, writes out the plots and everything. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:32 David Senra So the ruthless cut in this book, what Nolan was talking about, is called The Ruthless Edit by Rick Rubin.
- ▶ 47:13 David Senra Goes back to his desire to live in an analog world. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:48 David Senra So moving ahead. 14 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 2:16 David Senra What is also fascinating is what Christopher Nolan said about this. 2 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 44:57 David Senra Think about like, I've done a bunch of podcasts on, on directors like Christopher Nolan and
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 3:52 David Senra When I mentioned Steven Spielberg on a Steve jobs episode, when I mentioned Spielberg on the Christopher Nolan and the James Cameron episode, it pulled an idea from Spielberg that I mentioned in an episode on Pixar.
- ▶ 7:23 David Senra Christopher Nolan talks about this.
- ▶ 13:03 David Senra He'll talk about, I watched this interview with him and Christopher Nolan that took place probably a decade ago.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:08 David Senra Then you have the book I did on Christopher Nolan.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 1:01:17 David Senra Christopher Nolan.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 21:31 David Senra I just did Christopher Nolan's biography. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Bugatti
- ▶ 15:40 David Senra Uh, at the very end of the book, in the appendix, uh, let me get to it real quick, because I, I might not bring it up later, and it reminded me of James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, who have just spent a bunch of time, uh, studying and… 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 12:21 David Senra How is it possible that both James Cameron and Christopher Nolan both watched the movie, a space odyssey when they were kids and both arrived at the same conclusion that I can do that, that I can make movies.
- ▶ 27:27 David Senra I've heard this a bunch, but like, uh, Christopher, I've been thinking about like Christopher Nolan and David Ogilvie, just because they've built been top of mind.
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Christopher Nolan's second film, Memento, had a long, anxious year spent trying to secure distribution. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:07 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Nolan Variations, The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 David Senra Nolan doesn't like to use CGI, and Cameron is literally inventing the new technology for other filmmakers. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 David Senra Nolan has memories of loving cinema and loving movies for as long as he's had memories. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 David Senra One of the most interesting parts of Christopher Nolan's early life is the fact that his parents sent him to boarding school outside of London. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 David Senra So when Christopher Nolan and James Cameron are around college age, they both want to go to film school, right? 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 David Senra Chris also wanted to tell the story backward. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:17 David Senra I mentioned earlier how he puts a lot of his life into what he's doing, and yet he wants to be a good father and a good husband. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:03 David Senra I cannot get my head around it, Nolan said. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:48 David Senra So when Christopher Nolan first has an idea, 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:20 David Senra The second thing is that I had no idea that Christopher Nolan's approach to work was very similar to Jeff Bezos when he was at Amazon before he starts working on a movie, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:06 David Senra So previously Nolan said, Hey, I have my first instinct when I have an idea is to flip it. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:02 David Senra And then I think the starting and ending point where Christopher Nolan is the same, it all comes back to his original obsession of cinema itself. 10 times in the scene