Various Michael Caine interviewing on Red Carpet

Michael Caine:
I tell you the great gadget in this, they have this great big Batmobile right, and I was watching the film and I never saw the filming, I’m only in the butler, but they smash this car with these great big tires and it turns immediately into a motor bike, with these tires this big and it’s extraordinary, quite extraordinary.

Michael Caine:
I think he’s the best villain I’ve ever seen. I think he’ll get the Oscar, I think he’ll get everything, just such a sad thing that he died, this would have been his big moment

David S. Goyer:
Uh well first of all it was just the best experience that I’ve ever had and professionally working on Batman Begins and it’s specifically working with Chris Nolan so the opportunity to do it again was sort of a no-brainer, and you know then the opportunity to sort of uh have a hand in our version of The Joker was really and also Harvey Dent/Two-Face was incredible as well, no-brainer.

David S. Goyer
Why? I think you know first of all he doesn’t have any super powers, and so a lot of these people can relate to him and anyone can be him, you know can’t be Superman you can’t be Wonder Woman, you know a lot of these other characters, but if you have a lot of money and a lot of training, well billions of dollars, you could become Batman. We tried very hard in both films to make sure that everything we were doing was absolutely realistic. All of the technology that Batman employs you know are technology that are in the books or in the works right now, so you know it’s theoretically possible.

Morgan Freeman walking by

Nestor Carbonell:
I think what’s interesting about him is that he’s a wealthy guy. You know Bruce Wayne’s a wealthy man and yet he’s somehow feels a calling to improve you know to fight crime. He doesn’t have to necessarily, it could rest on his laurels, but he does, and I think there’s something interesting about that. Uh I don’t know other characters that usually it’s hard to sympathize with a rich protagonist, and in this particular case he makes a reason to sympathize with him, so it makes it interesting.

Christian Bale:
Uh you know what there’s been many good sequels, Empire Strikes Back, God Father 2, you know there’s many times when a sequel outdoes the first one. I know what makes a good sequel with this one is Chris was given the carte blanche of what he wanted to do you know. He’s a serious filmmaker, he’s one of the best out there, and he was just given free range to make what he wants to make uh he comes up with one of the best movies around.

Christian Bale:
Um because I think he has the shadow side to him, you know there’s something to him that unlike many superheroes is which you can aspire to be, he has the aspirational quality that people would want to have themselves but he’s also very very human, you know he has a shadow side, he has a dark side, you can see very much that he’s driven by some dark emotions, and that’s what makes him fascinating.

Christian Bale:
asked if another actor will portray the Joker in the third film
No.

Chin Han:
Yes I have (talks) I was very very um, even knowing the script even knowing the story, working on the film for 6 months, uh I was astonished I mean by the quality of the film. It was just uh amazing.

Chin Han:
For me uh what would come in handy? Um wow you put me on the spot here, I think I’d love to, I think uh a man-bag, a batman man-bag would be very helpful for blotting all this oil from my face on this warm summer evening. I think that would be it, yeah.

Chin Han:
Yes I did, yes I did. Uh it was lovely, I think that he’s always very inventive and he’s always looking at new ways to do something, but never at the expense of his co-stars, so he’s always very considerate of his co-stars but he’s always just you know he’s just full of ideas even you know even just before we shoot you know I mean he’s still wanting to try and that’s always very exciting for a co-star because uh you always keep it fresh.

Charles Roven:
Yeah we felt we still had much more story to tell ultimately, that was one of the reasons that Chris Nolan agreed to work on a new story with David Goyer and write it with his brother Joel. And uh and we definitely feel that there was a further uh big epic story tell, and we think that we’ve achieved that.

Charles Roven:
Not even thinking about anything now except for tonight

Maggie Gyllenhaal:
No, I never dreamt about it, and yet I really I quite liked it

Maggie Gyllenhaal:
To work with Bruce Wayne? Well um I mean with acting with Christian playing Bruce Wayne, Christian is very intense and very still and very um if you just look him in the eyes you rarely have to move in a scene.

Gary Oldman:
Have I seen it? Yeah. (talks) Well I didn’t think it was possible, I thought Batman Begins was very good, and I didn’t think it was possible for him to uh to top it, it’s rare that a sequel is better than the first, and this better than the first by you know ten fold. It’s quite, it’s quite it packs quite a punch.

Gary Oldman:
Remarkable. Yeah he’s fan… have you seen the movie? He’s fan, no he’s it’s everything you know it’s had a lot of hype because people are saying how extraordinary it is and um it really is it is quite something to watch.

Gary Oldman:
What Batman gadget would become handy? Well maybe at the party afterwards um yeah if you wanna make a quick exit you’ve got a grapple hook I guess, yeah?

Christopher Nolan:
Well uh I think I feel very uh very excited with so much anticipation around the film, but obviously that in itself is somewhat daunting, you know the film has a lot to live up to now, so uh hopefully we’ve done it right, but that’ll be for the public to decide at the end of the week.

Christopher Nolan:
Well I think the performance is really outstanding, uh and stands out as a group of a lot of other performances, but uh you really have to see it. It’s hard to sum up. It’s very frightening and very intense, but it’s also funny and uh witty, it really has to be seen.

Christopher Nolan:
Well I got intrigued by the notion that we left at the end of Batman Begins, a moment of escalation, the idea that Batman having come along and created this iconic presence uh that criminals were going to raise the stakes in turn, what would the response to Batman be? Uh that got me interested and that’s what we wound up making the film about.

Christopher Nolan:
I have no plans at the moment except to go on vacation.

"The Dark Knight" Premiere: wide of red carpet, pan across fans, various of press on the red carpet, shots of the poster and the marquee of the premiere, more of poster and various of red carpet, shots of the marquee, shots of the tumbler, shots of outside the theater and the marquee