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.

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!

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.

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.

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

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.