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

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.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

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

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

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.

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.