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I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

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It was a weird reaction to 'Batman Returns,' because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird - they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn't want me to do another one.

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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

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Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

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I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

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I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

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I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

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A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 25th, 1958

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