My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

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

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

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

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.