When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

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

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.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

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.

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

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.