My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.