To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a dime off any of them. Recount was the first thing I sold, and I actually sold it as a pitch to HBO. They bought it as a pitch, which was a miracle. I thought, "Wow, this could be the last time I'll be paid to write a script again, which would be too bad because that was an amazing experience I just had."

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.