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

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.

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 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

I think patriotism is never racism.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

Collaboration and celebration (and gratitude) create impressions of success in your subconscious, so that you may create future experiences in which you feel celebrated and grateful.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

There was something very special about Doctor Who, and I did miss it a lot.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.