I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

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

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too..

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other ….

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

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people..

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

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 A….

You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagina….

If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicia….

Life is a very emotional experience..

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in l….

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fix….

Nothings wrong with honest emotion..

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication..

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 thi….

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.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is da….

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York t….

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good wr….