The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

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.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

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.

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

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

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

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

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.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life.

Your heart truly deserves the priceless feeling of unconditional love that can only come from you to you.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.