I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.
From Tom Verica
Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.
Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.
I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'
I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.
Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.
Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.
Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.
If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.
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