A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.