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

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

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

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.