Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.
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 started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.
What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.