One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

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.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

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

It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.

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