When I Write Something, I

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

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.

That's A Very Real Feeling - That I Don't Have A Story To Tell. I'm Not A Pure Storyteller. I Have A Tough Time With Story.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.

President Bartlet: There's A Delegation Of Cardiologists Having Their Pictures Taken In The Blue Room. You Wouldn't Think You Could Find A Group Of People More Arrogant Than The Fifteen Of Us, But There They Are, Right Upstairs In The Blue Room.