He’s very confident and he’s been so the whole time, he hasn’t changed since the first day that I met him. He’s always very efficient and very clear about what he wants. He just gets it. I’ve learned working with him that it’s possible to make these large-scope movies, but still retain a sense of character there, that you don’t have to lose that. That so often happens in these large movies, it becomes about the action. With Christopher, every fight sequence must not just be a fight sequence for the sake of it, it has to tell you something about the character otherwise forget it, you should just cut that whole thing out. And having Tom as an advisory was very good for that because he’s such a good actor that he was able to bring that to the table. Also with Chris, he really gave me a respect for these kind of movies. He has incredible integrity, and consequently, when he told me this is the final one, I listened to him and said, “Ok, this is goodbye.”

Christian Bale on his experience working with Christopher Nolan on the Batman Trilogy