Latest Tony Goldwyn Quotes from Interviews

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• Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Dark, Complicated

  Source: www.elle.com

• In television, the creator is really the voice...

  Tony Goldwyn

  Voice, Television, Creator

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

• I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

  Tony Goldwyn

  People, Different, Television

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

• Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Television, Moral

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

• I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, One Thing, Seems

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

• It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Two, Back And Forth, Protagonists

  Source: collider.com

• One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Talking, People, African American

  Source: collider.com

• The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"

  Tony Goldwyn

  Nice, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

• I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Thinking, Lazy, Asking

  Source: collider.com

• Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Thinking, Race, July

  Source: collider.com

• I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Men, Years

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Punishment, Innocent Person, People

• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Weed, Smart, Tv Shows

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

• I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Mind, Way, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Jobs, Successful, Imagination

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

• My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Mother, New York, Fabulous

  Source: www.motherjones.com