Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing.
I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.
I’ve never read Joseph Campbell, and I don’t know all that much about story archetypes.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
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I don’t actually tend to do a lot of research when I’m writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
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.
If I could steal someone’s dream myself, I’d have to go for one of Orson Welles.
The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it’s chronological or non-chronological. To me that’s always about what point of view are we trying to address in 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 will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.
I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.
We shouldn’t be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
To be honest, I don’t enjoy watching movies much when I’m working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
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.
I’m taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.
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.
I would never say someone else’s film isn’t ‘a real film.’ The quote is inaccurate.