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.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

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."

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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