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We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.

I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

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.