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Every great story deserves a great ending
No, I've only ever done one film at a time.
I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.
You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
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.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.
I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.
It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.
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.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
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.
There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.
The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.