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.

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.

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

Anytime we go to a new town I try to book a show. I literally know nothing about the club.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I don't need my name anywhere.

To read is human, to review is divine.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it's great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I'm not.