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

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?

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.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

The only thing that's consistent in politics is change.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.