You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen..

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different ar….

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine..

In politics, it's very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and cand….

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism..

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations and you’re able to rely….

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality..

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these d….

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you….

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and….

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place..

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man..

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly….

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play ou….

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you oft….

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians..

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that..

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did..