In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”

“The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.”

“Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”

“The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.”

“Call no man unhappy until he is married.”

“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.”

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”