I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.