Batman: The Animated Series

"PD: If I had to differentiate between [Batman and Superman], I'd say Superman is sort of about hope. You've got this guy who's an alien and not truly human, but he personifies all the best qualities of humanity. He's sort of an example of what it would be nice to be like. We would all like to be like Superman. We would all like to have power, compassion, the ability to settle problems in a good way, and maybe [be able to] wink to ourselves about how nobody else besides us knows we really have this secret power and we keep it ourselves. There's not a lot of angst with Superman. If there is, it's more like, "I wish I could tell Lois who I really was." Batman is how you'd like to be if you [could] break someone's neck: "I'm pissed off, and I want to go out and do something about it." Superman waits for trouble to happen, and then he goes off and stops the problem. Batman's looking for trouble; he doesn't really start it, but he's out there looking. And if he sees something going on, he just jumps into the middle of it."

"PD: When Tim Burton's Batman came out, that was the way to go. Now Joel Schumacher's Batman is out there, and people are flocking to the movies, so they"re saying, "Can you lighten up the show a little bit? Can you have more fun with it?" So that's what we were charged with doing, and that's what we've done: to lighten up the color palette a little bit, so that every character's not just in dark colors. Robin, for instance, is now black, red, and gold, instead of green. Nightwing is black and a light, almost iridescent, blue. We've also given it a little more of a kid-friendly look."

"The thing with the Batman show—even though it's one of the most beautiful and well-written shows, and it really gets into Batman—is that it doesn't really move that fast. The fight scenes aren't that intense, and it doesn't really go actiony. There's a lot of walking and talking in it. It looks great, but it needs that kick of having action. And I think that's another thing that kids are picking up on: For the first time, you're actually seeing superheroes really fight bad guys. In a lot of the cartoons when I was growing up, like Super Friends, there was no fighting of bad guys. They would just get sent off to jail. It was wacky, it was silly, it wasn't intense, and there wasn't real fighting and stuff in it."

"Kevin Conroy - Bruce Wayne/Batman"

"Loren Lester - Dick Grayson/Robin"

"Melissa Gilbert - Barbara Gordon/Batgirl"

"Clive Revill/Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - Alfred Pennyworth"

"Bob Hastings - Commissioner James Gordon"

"Robert Costanzo - Detective Harvey Bullock"

"Ingrid Oliu/Liane Schirmer - Officer Renee Montoya"

"Mark Hamill - The Joker"

"Arleen Sorkin - Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn"

"Paul Williams - Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin"

"Adrienne Barbeau - Selina Kyle/Catwoman"

"John Glover - Edward Nygma/The Riddler"

"Richard Moll - Harvey Dent/Two-Face"

"George Dzundza - Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist/Scarface"

"Henry Silva - Bane"

"Aron Kincaid - Killer Croc"

"Marc Singer - Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat"

"Ron Perlman - Matt Hagen/Clayface"

"Diane Pershing - Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy"

"Henry Polic II - Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow"

"Roddy McDowall - Dr. Jervis Tetch/The Mad Hatter"

"Michael Ansara - Dr. Victor Freeze/Mr. Freeze"

"David Warner - Ra's al Ghul"