I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together. ”

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me. ”

My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker. ”

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character. ”

It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas. ”

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies. ”

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office. ”

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person. ”

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue. ”

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated. ”