You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill.

They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

I didn't know much about video games.

There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.