It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

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 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.

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in.

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook