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

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 feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

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.

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

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

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