I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating 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.

No one will love you more than you do. So love your self first.

When you love someone, you often surprise yourself with the kind of forbearance you can show in the face of total exasperation.

Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.