I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.