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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.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

People like scandals.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.