There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren’t correct.

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.

I made ‘Batman’ the way I made every other film, and I’ve done it to my own satisfaction – because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

We shouldn’t be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don’t know everything about, and you don’t know every plot turn and every character movement that’s going to happen.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it’s you being on top of everything, you’re actually relying massively on the people around you.

In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there’s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you’re trying to break into the film industry, it’s definitely a bad thing.

I’ve always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.