"I'd always dreamed about doing a Batman film. I'd told my mother when I was a little kid, 'I'm gonna grow up one day and make movies and make a Batman movie.' And I was kind of disappointed when the previous Batman films came out because I thought, 'oh well, there goes my shot.' So this was the opportunity I had always waited for. It was an enormous honor, not only to be asked to do a Batman film, but to have Chris Nolan be the one asking me, because I think Chris is one of our greatest filmmakers. It's funny how that works out sometimes - you're dying for something, then the opportunity comes."

"I had a very schizophrenic experience when I was working on this project. On one hand I was a professional, meeting with Chris Nolan and Warner Bros. and DC Comics, but on the other hand I was just this fan, this geek, this kid that read comic books when I was growing up. I kept on oscillating back and forth between the two because this really is my dream project. It's absolutely the Batman film that I wish I would've seen when I was a kid - it's everything I always wanted to see in a Batman movie. And it's very gratifying that both Warner Bros. and DC are very, very happy with what we've done."

"The thing that separates this film from other superhero films is that Batman is entirely plausible. There aren't any superpowers involved in the film. There aren't any mutants, no characters from other planets. It's set firmly in the real world. And I think in that way it makes it more accessible to the audience. You could never be Superman, you could never be The Incredible Hulk, but anybody could become Batman - you'd have to inherit a couple billion dollars and have all these gadgets, but nevertheless it's possible. Like maybe if we tried hard enough, if we worked hard enough, if we trained hard enough, maybe, just maybe, we could become Batman."

"The great thing about this story is that it's never been told before, even in the comic books. The closest that the comic books have come is a story called Batman Year One, which is set after Bruce Wayne's returned to Gotham City. But there's a gap of at least seven years after he disappears from Gotham, and they just never told that story. So this was a way of doing something new and different that had never been done before. And that excited me and Chris, and it obviously excited DC and Warner Bros. as well."