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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.

Aaron Sorkin

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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.

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