Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

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 always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's not a fully formed character like James Bond, so what we're doing is following the journey of this guy from a child who goes through this horrible experience of becoming this extraordinary character. That, for me, became a three-part story. And obviously the third part becomes the ending of the guy's story.