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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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 was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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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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