Develop Your Own Compass, And Trust It.

Conflict, When Used As A Device, Makes For Good Television And Bad Journalism.

If You Can Socialize From The Privacy Of Your Desk At Night In A Dark Room, You Can Be A Smoother, Cooler, Funnier, Sexy, More Everything Person Than You Actually Are In Real Life.

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.

I'd Been Concerned All Along That The Character Of The President In The West Wing Pilot Would Throw The Ensemble Out Of Whack, That That Character Would Simply Take Up All The Oxygen In A Room. I Wanted To Hold Off Bringing This Character In Until The Last Possible Moment.

When I Write Something, I Want The Best Director To Direct It. And That's Not Going To Be Me.