Screenwriter

When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.

Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

Pemerintah harus menjadi tempat di mana orang bisa berkumpul, dan tidak ada yang tertinggal. Tidak seorang pun ... tertinggal. Alat yang bagus.

With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

Langkah pertama dalam memecahkan masalah adalah mengenali ada satu.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

Mencoba menebak apa yang diinginkan khalayak ramai dan kemudian mencoba memuaskan itu biasanya merupakan resep buruk untuk mendapatkan sesuatu yang baik.

Kami akan membuat episode di Air Force One, misalnya, dan kami akan mengambil kebebasan, kebebasan kecil, dengan Air Force One, saat kami mengambil kebebasan kecil dengan perangkat Gedung Putih kami.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.