Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.