Danny Strong quotes:

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

I took a lot of writing courses.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

The exciting thing about today with the Internet, streaming, and YouTube, is you can just go do it. You can go make a short and put it up, and it, very well, may be seen. You can create your own Internet series and just put it out there. It wasn't like that when I was in my 20s. People weren't doing this sort of thing - now they can and they should try it.