As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.
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.
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I've been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices. . . . So, of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.