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

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.

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

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

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.