David, you've done drama and horror. Some fairly formidable directors have branched out into superhero movies pretty beautifully is that something you would consider doing?
DC: I don't think they are making them an elevated art form. I think it's still Batman running around in a stupid cape. I just don't think it's elevated. Christopher Nolan's best movie is "Memento," and that is an interesting movie. I don't think his Batman movies are half as interesting though they're 20 million times the expense. What he is doing is some very interesting technical stuff, which, you know, he's shooting IMAX and in 3-D. That's really tricky and difficult to do. I read about it in "American Cinematography Magazine," and technically, that's all very interesting. The movie, to me, they're mostly boring.
Do you think the subject matter prohibits the elevated art form?
DC: Absolutely. Anybody who works in the studio system has got 20 studio people sitting on his head at every moment, and they have no respect, and there's no
it doesn't matter how successful you've been. And obviously Nolan has been very successful. He's got a lot of power, relatively speaking. But he doesn't really have power.
So that's a no.
DC: I would say that's a no, you know. And the problem is you gotta
as I say, you can do some interesting, maybe unexpected things. And certainly, I've made the horror films and people say, "Can you make a horror film also an art film?" And I would say, "Yeah, I think you can."
But a superhero movie, by definition, you know, it's comic book. It's for kids. It's adolescent in its core. That has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying, you know, "Dark Knight Rises" is, you know, supreme cinema art," I don't think they know what the f**k they're talking about.
Having determined that they're utterly pedestrian, is that something you would ever do, Robert?
DC: As an actor, I would play Batman.
RP: Actors always think they can elevate anything. The worse the script is, the more an actor is like
I mean, it's funny, you read the worst script ever, and you'll talk to everyone, and go
I always talk to my agents and I got sent this thing the other day, and they're like, "Oh my God, this is the worst thing ever." But really, like, it was basically only one character, you're like, "I don't know. I think I could do something with this."
I'd never get offered [a superhero role]. I'm not buff enough [laughs].
DC: Rob, it's okay. They put you in a funny suit. You don't have to be buff.
what a snob.
