Danny Strong

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. ”

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. ”

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”