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.

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.

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

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to make me feel emotional, but I don't believe the filmmaker shares that emotion. They just think the audience will. And I think you can feel that separation. So any time I find myself writing something that I don't really respond to, but I'm telling myself, 'Oh yes, but the audience is going to like this,' then I know I'm on the wrong track and I just throw it out.

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