Greg Berlanti Quotes

Television can be a very fickle place.

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.

The first conversations I had for 'Legion' were right as the first year of 'Fargo' was ending. 'Daredevil' hadn't even begun then, so when signing on, I had no real sense of the onslaught that was coming.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.

It would be a really great to do a Marvel film - not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing.

I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

I said no to a lot of superhero stuff. I never expected to say yes to that kind of stuff.

The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.

I have a DVD of 'Lois & Clark,' and I don't know how the special effects hold up, because all the technology's gotten so much better. But the writer - the woman that wrote 'Lois & Clark' - I think those stories were good.

I get a bit overwhelmed by the number of shows I haven't seen, that are still on my bucket list.

I was shooting for two Balaji shows, Kayamath' and Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil,' in Mumbai. I was tired working round the clock.

'Axe Cop' is an animated show that just started on Fox that is based off the comic book series. And here's the hook: it's written by a 5-year-old. This 5-year-old has a brother who's, like, 28 and is in the business, and the little brother kept coming up with all these awesome stories for this character he dreamed up called Axe Cop.

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.

'Daredevil' is haunted by Frank Miller, from the standpoint of the Frank Miller run on 'Daredevil' is so insurmountable.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I love superhero movies.

I like movies with superheroes - one of my favorite movies of all time was 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'

I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.

In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have 25 late night talk show hosts trying to be the most outrageous. There was the likeable television genius Johnny Carson and his mad-genius counterpart Dave. There was nothing else crazy on TV every night, and there was no Internet.

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.