The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're sleeping, I come away feeling like our minds are not remotely understood by science.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.