Decisions are made by those who show up.

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.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.