I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

My sex scenes with @kerrywashington are f****** hot!

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

In television, the creator is really the voice...