A Few Good Men |
Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed, |
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. |
I can kind of put any piece of red meat out on the table -- census, proportional response, slavery reparations -- and get them fighting about it. |
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. |
I have to allow for the possibility that I'm not just writing the season finale, that I'm writing the series finale, |
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy. I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" And I really, really don't. |
I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind of thing, |
If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nice in sweeps month to have that as our lead-in. |
John was an uncommonly good man, an exceptional role model and a brilliant actor. |
that there might be at NBC or HBO. |
The play was written before 9/11 and July 7 and Abu Ghraib and a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate. |
The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate. |
The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault. |
We're shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden death of our friend and colleague. |