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One Of The Biggest Challenges In The Past For Me In Working On The Networks Was That Audiences Have Grown Accustomed To Television Being Something That Keeps You Company-background Music, Something That You Have On While You're Flipping Through A Magazine, Cooking Dinner, Talking On The Phone, Putting The Kids To Bed.

The Stuff That I Write Doesn't Work Very Well As Background Music. You Have To Watch It From Beginning To End And Pay Attention As If You Were Watching A Play.

The Monica Lewinsky Scandal Was Happening At The Very Time I Was Writing The West Wing Pilot And It Was Hard, At Least For Americans, To Look At The White House And Think Of Anything But A Punch Line. Plus A Show About Politics, A Show That Took Place In Washington, Had Just Never Worked Before In American Television. So The Show Was Delayed For A Year.

I'm Sick Of Girls Who Don't Know How To High-five.

What's Interesting, Is That I've Found That The More Accomplished A Director Is, The More Secure They Are In Giving Direction That Sounds Incredibly Unsophisticated.