Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.