What creative insights I learned from Christopher Nolan by reading: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, by Tom Shone.

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Art mentioned:

• Inception — Film
• Christopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — Podcast
• Memento — Film
• #6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode
• 2001: A Space Odyssey — Film
• Blade Runner — Film
• Alien — Film
• Star Wars — Film
• Day in the Life of a Knife Maker — YouTube
• Interstellar — Film
• First Man — Film
• The Place Beyond The Pines — Film
• Drive — Film
• Blade Runner 2049 — Film
• The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy — Book
• Batman Begins — Film
• The Dark Knight — Film
• The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World — Book
• Las Meninas, Piccaso — Paintings
• Why So Serious? (The Joker Theme), Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard — Music
• #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode
• Samson and Delilah, Rubens — Painting
• Following — Film
• Pulp Fiction — Film
• Reservoir Dogs — Film
• Citizen Kane — Film
• Tenet — Film
• The Italian Job — Film
• Ocean’s Eleven — Film
• A Fistful of Dollars — Film
• Oppenheimer — Film
• American Prometheus — Book
• Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish — Book
• Searching for Bobby Fischer — Film
• Hard Eight — Film
• Bottle Rocket — Film
• The Prestige — Film
• Casino Royale — Film
• How To Do Great Work, Paul Graham — Essay
• Westworld, HBO — TV Show

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