Memento Quotes

For me, there`s a bigger risk trying Batman. Ultimately, the big point was that Chris Nolan (Memento), who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, `Well, he`s not a director that you would expect, therefore you`re going to get the unexpected from him.` I think there`s a great potential for going very dark with it, it`s a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I`ve never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp Adam West TV series thing, which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic Dark Knight novels which delve somewhat deeper.

We recorded a bunch of the shows because they were the first shows we`d done back together. We wanted to have a memento of them.

When a film like Chris Nolan`s Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It`s dead.

I just saw Memento. It`s very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I`ve been writing stories since I was a kid, and James and I had been talking about wanting to make a film for many years before this. Even though we wrote the film as a means to an end, so that James would have something to direct and I could have something to act in, it wasn`t a slough for me to get through it because I love writing. It took me a long time only because I felt like it was all or nothing, that this script had to be good enough to compete at a world level. We didn`t want it to be something that was something that was pretty good for a couple of guys from Melbourne. We wanted it to be a good film on a par with other independent films like Run, Lola, Run and Pi and Memento, these cool thrillers that had ticking-clock gimmicks to them. They`re the type of films we wanted to be up there with. (on `Saw`)