We Should All Aspire In Life To

Imagine If Somebody Were To Really Sit Down With Osama Bin Ladin And Say, 'listen Man, What Is It That You're So Angry At Me About That You're Willing To Have People Strap Bombs To Themselves, Or Get Inside Of Airplanes And Fly Them Into Buildings?' That Would Be The Miracle If We Can Get, Sit Down And Talk To Our Enemies And Find A Way For Them To Hear Us.

I Never Set Out To Be Rich And Famous. I Wanted To Follow My Own Path.

And If I Was Going To Go There – The Only Person You Can Really Compare Batman To, Of Those Characters, Would Be Iron Man, Another Rich Guy Who Has The Ability To Make Fantastic Toys – So If You Want To Take Batman And Iron Man And Put Them In A Battle, That’s An Interesting Battle. But If You Want To Take Christian Bale And Robert Downey Jr. And Put Them In A Ufc Fighting Cage, Christian Bale Will – To Quote Full Metal Jacket – Tear Robert Downey Jr.’s Head Off And Sh-t Down His Neck.

If You Take 2001: A Space Odyssey As An Example Of Somebody Who Creates A New Language In Film By What He Was Able To Accomplish With Art Direction, Photography, Lighting, Etc., It Is Still A Gold Standard For Science Fiction.

I've Worked With Robert Altman A Couple Of Times Too.