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

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 life.

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

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

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

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

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

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Life is a very emotional experience.

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

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

Who that man in the black Sedan With two cheap hookers and a Mexican Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.