I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

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

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

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'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 really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

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

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 continue to grow beautifully on my inside while the wrinkles take care of my outside’’ – Binduu Chopra

What do you think is the problem? You’re a cute kid-­‐uh, guy. Man. You’re a cuteman.

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.