We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.