Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.