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Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

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When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

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I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

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I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

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But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next.

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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

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I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

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I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

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Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

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I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.

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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

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To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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