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.

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.

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own.

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.

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.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.