“I thought, ‘Well, there’s been some terrific Batman movies,’ and I don’t want to be part of a long line of Batman movies where this is just another one.
The 1966 Batman tv show seemed to have doomed the caped crusader to a lifetime of camp and cheesiness.
“The Dark Knight is so incredible and I think that Heath Ledger’s performance and their conception of the Joker in that movie is indelible.