- Beau Willimon: What interested me about Francis Underwood was the sort of Shakespearean character for whom there was no sense of limits, you know, an utterly liberated person.
- Beau Willlimon: He's a person who's all about what is possible, not what limits him.
- Beau Willimon: Really I'm telling the story of characters who want things and are going after them.
- Beau Willimon: I want to do something radical, I want to dramatize a successful marriage.
- Beau Willimon: Power pervades all of our lives, it's not limited to politics. Power is about interpersonal relationships.
- Beau Willimon: The very first thing I said to Fincher is, I don't want this to be a show about politics, I want it to be a show about a marriage.