Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

The secret of joy is to give love without seeking it.

If you have strength, why won’t you work?

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.