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.

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.

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.

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

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.