David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.