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

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.

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.

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

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

Colonel: Tell me what is the T.R.U.T.H, Doctor!Doctor: Total.Reveal.Using.Therapeutic.Hologram

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.