When I was shooting The Dark Knight (2008) I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.
We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost.
Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.