Pack Beauregard "Beau" Willimon (born October 26, 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is known as the showrunner and writer of House of Cards. Read full biography of Beau Willimon →
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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... →
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... →
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... →
People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of... →
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... →
There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing... →
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral... →
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three... →
Pack Beauregard "Beau" Willimon (born October 26, 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is known as the showrunner and writer of House of Cards.