My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

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.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership it underscores the need for leadership.

I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.