“Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.”

I’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.

I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn’t feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.

Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I would like to direct.

Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.

I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.