When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.