You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

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

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

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 believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

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.