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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.