Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

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

The Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening at the very time I was writing the West Wing pilot and it was hard, at least for Americans, to look at the White House and think of anything but a punch line. Plus a show about politics, a show that took place in Washington, had just never worked before in American television. So the show was delayed for a year.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.

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