32 Quotes by Danny Strong

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.

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 took a lot of writing courses.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that’s the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

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 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.

I don’t use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.