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

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.

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?

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.

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.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me

If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.