As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

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

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.

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

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.