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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.

You Can Only Write, 'somebody Wants Something, Something Else Is In Their Way Of Getting It.'

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'm Not Interested In The Difference Between Good And Bad, I'm Interested In The Differences Between Good And Great.

Just To Clarify The Division Of Labor On The Show, I Write The Show And Alan [poul] Does Everything Else.