I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.