I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."

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.

With the right kind of people life is wonderful

I am born to win.

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.