It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.