I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

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

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and you take a subjective approach at other times, and that allows you to find an emotional experience for the audience.

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.

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