I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I took a lot of writing courses.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.