The exciting thing about today with the Internet, streaming, and YouTube, is you can just go do it. You can go make a short and put it up, and it, very well, may be seen. You can create your own Internet series and just put it out there. It wasn't like that when I was in my 20s. People weren't doing this sort of thing - now they can and they should try it.

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 took a lot of writing courses.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

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

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

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