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.”

“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”

“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.”

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”

“How many are the things I can do without!”

“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”

“Know thyself.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself. ”