Beau Willimon

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.