The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

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.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

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.