Quotes

[on the TV series Batman (1966)] As long as they write about the show I really couldn't care less what they have to say about it. Ahhh, criticism has never really bothered me; if you let it, as you well know, you can eat your heart out about every other morning for breakfast.

[on how 'Batman' (1966) came about]: I bought a dozen of the comic books from various vintages, so I read all these things, and I thought they must be outer their minds. It was all so juvenile and so then a very simple idea came to me and that was to over do it. And if you over did it I thought it would be funny for adults and yet would be stimulating for kids, you had to appeal on both levels to have a chance.

[on 'Batman' airing twice-a-week]: It wasn't planned for two nights originally, we shot them as one hour shows and then decided to break them up into two half hour shows.

[on the budget of 'Batman'] It was a very expensive show to do, the sets were expensive, the special effects were expensive, and the cost was killing us.

[on having famed director Otto Preminger make a guest villain appearance on 'Batman'] Otto I had known for a long time, and he called me from New York and said 'Bill, I must do a "Batman." If you don't do a "Batman" my children won't let me come home.'