"You get terribly typecast playing a character like that. But in the overall, I'm delighted because my character became iconic and has opened a lot of doors in other ways, too."

"We were making overstated morality plays for children that adults could watch and enjoy. We played it terribly serious, and that's half the fun of it."

"It had to be played as though we were dropping a bomb on Hiroshima, with that kind of deadly seriousness."

"Gotham City 14 miles"

"My favorite show when I was a kid was the Adam West Batman. When I watched it as a kid, it was totally real and intense and bad things were happening, but my parents were laughing at it, and I couldn't understand what they thought was so funny. When I saw it again when I was older, I realized that it was a comedy. I realized I needed to try to make a show that works both ways. That's a really good challenge to try to pull off. I guess we seem to be doing it. Kids might not get a lot of the jokes, but they're enjoying the action, and adults are picking up on the little innuendoes."