‘Alien 3 (1992): “It depends, it’s different. I wanted to do an Alien movie. I wanted to do one since I was 16. I felt like I had a relationship to the Dan O’Bannon side of it as well as the Walter Hill side of it, as well as the H.R. Giger side of it. I felt like I kinda knew what I would do with that. The fact that I wasn’t allowed to was my own fault. But, you know, that was a world that I loved that I couldn’t get enough of. So that was an easy thing to want to get involved with, and probably too easy because it was totally fucked up for so many other different reasons.”
Se7en (1995): “Seven was just a gripping yarn and I just felt like I hadn’t seen this movie and I hadn’t seen a movie that was kind of professing to be the procedural that became this other thing. I thought it was a structural… you know, it was as impressive to me that Kevin Spacey would show up spattered with blood at the two hour point of that movie as it is that Janet Lee gets slashed to death in the shower in Psycho.
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‘There’s nothing sentimental or soft about Gotham City, and that seems to suit Christopher Nolan just fine. The 41-year-old filmmaker fills the screen with grim architecture, hard-luck faces and gun-metal hues; tricks of the mind are his narrative specialty, not affairs of the heart. Still, last Thursday, eating his dinner standing up in a movie theater lobby, Nolan confessed that even he got a bit misty during the final shooting days of “The Dark Knight Rises,” which is (by all appearances) his final visit to the world of Batman.
‘Beautiful, smart and dangerous. While those are words that could be used to describe Selina Kyle aka Catwoman, portrayed by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises.” But they could also be used to describe Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr, who in addition to being a stunning beauty, was also something of a genius, whose invention of the speed spectrum radio paved the way for the digital technology we know now (seriously, and you can read more about her various innovations in the new book “Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World”). But before any of these things became known, Lamarr stripped off and became famous in Gustav Machatý’s notorious, nudity filled “Ecstasy” and it was in that film that Hathaway found the genesis for Catwoman. But not because of the skin.
‘Wired.com: Your live-action debut was going to be 1906, so how did you get involved with Ghost Protocol?
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