If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.

I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.