I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

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

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

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 find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.