You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.