Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

One of the things that's really fun to tap in with television right now is this sort of explosion, the peak TV moment that we're in, people are exploring different modes of storytelling here. But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this is kind of the idea of the premise of the show, where is each week you're kind of meeting . . . It's random access.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.