The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

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.

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...