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It's Very Important That A Film That Intends To Play Tricks On The Audience... Has To Play Fair With The Audience. For Me, Any Time You're Going To Have A Reveal In The Film, It's Essential That It Have Been Shown To The Audience As Much As Possible. What That Means Is That Some People Are Going To Figure It Out Very Early On. Other People Not Til The End. Everybody Watches The Film Differently.

I Have Always Been A Big Fan Of The Character And Am More Of A Moviegoer Than A Comic Book Guy, There Is Always Something About The Character Of Batman That Is Very Elemental. There Is A Great Powerful Myth To The Character And Romantic Element That Draws From A Lot Of Literary Sources

I Believe Movies Are One Of The Great American Art Forms And The Shared Experience Of Watching A Story Unfold On Screen Is An Important And Joyful Pastime. The Movie Theatre Is My Home, And The Idea That Someone Would Violate That Innocent And Hopeful Place In Such An Unbearably Savage Way Is Devastating To Me.

I Think There's A Vague Sense Out There That Movies Are Becoming More And More Unreal. I Know I've Felt It.

Period Films To Me Are Very Often Alienating To The Audience. There's Very Often A Formality. A Staunchy Quality To Them That Comes From The Misenscene. It Also Comes From The Performances Of The Actors, Because They're Acting Victorian Which Really Means That They're Just Acting The Way They've Seen Previous Actors Act Victorian.