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 wouldn’t consider doing a Batman sequel unless I felt like it could be a great film, a film even better than the one we already made. But I certainly couldn’t do another one on...

[The film’s title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he’d signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with] Batman Begins … All I can tell you is, we’re talking. There was quite...

You musn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I...

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Somehow he just really fit the bill and had that fire in his eyes that made you believe this guy could make himself fit into a superhero role,

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy. There is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There...

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record, and they’re irrelevant if you have...

[In addition to the excellent audio and video quality on the Begins DVD, it’s also packed with a plethora of behind-the-scenes features.] I very much enjoyed all the material relating to how we made the...

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you...

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer...

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.

I didn’t do a commentary on the DVD, which people were maybe surprised by. To be honest, my feeling is that commentaries are very tricky because I feel like the audience completes the film, and...

I’m not really able to discuss it at the moment, but it’s something I’m definitely interested in,

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.