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..

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 lik….

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 ….

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't e….

It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, m….

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 anxiou….

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you'….

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

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

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

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Somet….

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a….

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..

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 fa….

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies ….

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in ter….

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

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas..

It's like an angel crying on your tongue..