Beau Willimon Quotations

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

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

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

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

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.

In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

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 Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

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.

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.