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."

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

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

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.

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.

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.