I Would Love For People To Think

I Want To Convey That I'm Crazy About The Kardashians - But I'm Not Sure Which Is Which.

Pretty Much Up Until The West Wing, Our Leaders Had Always Been Portrayed In Popular Culture As Either Machiavellian Or Dolts. But I Thought, "what If We Show A Group Of People Who Are Highly Competent, They're Going To Lose As Much As They Win, But We're Going To Understand That They Wake Up Every Morning Wanting To Do Good?" That Was Really The Spirit Behind The West Wing.

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.

I Wrote The Show West Wing For The Two Years Before And The Two Years After 9/11. Suddenly Everyone In The World Had Been Through Something That Our Characters Had Not Been Through; The Whole Trajectory Of The World Had Changed. Yet Our Show Took Place In A Parallel Universe. I Wasn't Really Sure What To Do About This. In No One's Wildest Dreams Did It Occur That An Event Like This Could Possibly Happen.

I Don’t Believe There Are Two Sides To Every Argument. I Think The Facts Are The Center. And Watching The News Abandon The Facts In Favor Of “fairness” Is What’s Troubling To Me.