I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood..

There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it al….

When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to ex….

If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can fi….

I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superma….

To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in ….

They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and p….

There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, an….

I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know, maybe 100 Batman sto….

In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of co….

If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look, even in terms of Danny Elfman's music for Batm….

There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were many years ago. Ma….

I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain white dissolves were u….

I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked him better than Superman or Spider-Man or ….

Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life..

Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in ….