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

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.

Life is a very emotional experience.

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

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

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.

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