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

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

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

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.

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.

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

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