I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks..

Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. ….

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want..

We're all victims of our own hubris at times..

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty..

I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope..

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them..

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy..

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the t….

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young pe….

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of peop….

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want..

Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else..

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me..

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be..

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company..

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession..

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home..

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad….

I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate descri….