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.

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.

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

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.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

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

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?