"What I like about Lois and Clark, too—and what I think we've preserved—is that there is this sort of throwback, gal Friday feel to her, that she exists in a man's world and she's still extremely feminine."

The director's new film, The Bling Ring, is a noir for the TMZ age—a true-life Hollywood crime story filled with celebrity-obsessed teens, breaking and entering, designer clothes, social media, guns, and of course, Paris Hilton

It's March 1971. The Allman Brothers Band is basking in the breakthrough success of their live album, At Fillmore East.

While it might be too early to call The Bling Ring a breakout performance for actor Israel Broussard, it has all the trappings of a success.

"As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring ... A lot of Batman fans might say that."