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.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

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.

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.