41 Quotes by Beau Willimon

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

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

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.