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.
Christopher NolanThe 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.
Christopher NolanI think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
Christopher NolanI've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
Christopher Nolan