Michael Caine recently offered some final thoughts on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and what he thought of the film. As you would expect, he had nothing but good things to say about it.

"Normally when you get these blockbusters, they spend so much money on the stunts and the scenery, they haven't got any money left over for actors so they never write any great dramatic parts in," Caine told the LA Times . "But everything in his movie is written like a drama. You could take it out and make a movie about that, the relationship with the butler."However, after three movies playing Alfred Pennyworth, the actor said "there were no tears" at the end of shooting."We all knew the time had come to stop," Caine said. "We knew we were now going to go on the downward stretch. We got better and better and better and then we thought, yeah, this is it. Forget it now. Let's go and do something else. We were sort of sad but happy that we weren’t going to do another one and screw it up."

As for the final scene with Alfred at the cafe, spotting Bruce with Selina Kyle at a neighboring table, Caine is certain that, despite some speculation, it actually happened."They were there," Caine said. "They were real. There was no imagination. They were real and he was with Anne, the cat lady, and I was happy ever after for him as I told him during the picture."Unlike Nolan and star Christian Bale, who have said they are done with Batman, Caine is keeping an open mind on returning to the franchise at some point. "I said to Chris, 'If they do it again and they ask me to be the butler, I'm going to do it,'" Caine remarked. "He said, 'I want 10 percent.'"Head on over to the LA Times for the full interview, which includes Caine's recollection of accepting the Alfred role for Batman Begins.

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