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.

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.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.