Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.