If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

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.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.