The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

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.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

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

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.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.