"Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and…"

"I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective."

"Bob Kane...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, …"

"I knew many homosexuals but I certainly didn’t think of Batman in those terms. I thought of it in terms of … Frank Me…"

"More important than this, however, is the idea that Batman is not just a guy in a suit, but a symbol and there are pe…"

"I think Batman is a pretty universal character. I remember him as a child. But I think Christian [Bale] did the best …"

"O'Neil's interpretation of Batman as a vengeful obsessive-compulsive, which he modestly describes as a return to the …"

"I've always preferred Batman to Superman because Batman's stunts are at least theoretically possible. When he swings …"

"Bruce Wayne's first name came from Robert Bruce, the Scottish patriot. Wayne, being a playboy, was a man of gentry. I…"

"I wanted to see and to show that transition when he goes from Bruce Wayne to Batman, the time when he's about to don …"