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.

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.

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

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

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.

One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.