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

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 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.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

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.

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."