I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time..

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced..

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind..

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day..

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself..

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero..

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other..

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that lov….

I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a dime off any of them. Recount was ….

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election..

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize..

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections..

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it..

I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gil….

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre..

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time….

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal….

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great..

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is r….

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President o….