It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any time you're going to have a reveal in the film, it's essential that it have been shown to the audience as much as possible. What that means is that some people are going to figure it out very early on. Other people not til the end. Everybody watches the film differently.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

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

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

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.