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.

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.

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

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.