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

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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."

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

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.