"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 …"

": "Batman's rich history allows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure, this is a lighter incarnati…"

"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 …"