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.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

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

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.

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