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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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