Paul Dini Quotes

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

The new 'Dark Knight' movies, they're wonderful in their own way.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

My goodness, what a blast it is filming 'Woody.'

Maayanadhi' was a film I enjoyed working in.

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.