“Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else’s part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.”

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.

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

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 never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.

I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie

It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.