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

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.

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

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.

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.

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

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