Rule Of Storytelling: When A Character Is

President Bartlet: There's A Delegation Of Cardiologists Having Their Pictures Taken In The Blue Room. You Wouldn't Think You Could Find A Group Of People More Arrogant Than The Fifteen Of Us, But There They Are, Right Upstairs In The Blue Room.

Make No Mistake About It, You Are Dumb. You’re A Group Of Incredibly Well-educated Dumb People. I Was There. We All Were There. You’re Barely Functional. There Are Some Screw-ups Headed Your Way. I Wish I Could Tell You That There Was A Trick To Avoiding The Screw-ups, But The Screw-ups, They’re A-coming For Ya. It’s A Combination Of Life Being Unpredictable, And You Being Super Dumb.

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

There Are Television Critics, Movie Critics, And Theater Critics Too Who I Like And Who I Follow And I Get Genuinely Bummed When They Don't Like Something That I've Written Because I Usually Agree With Them.

The Hardest Thing For Me Is Getting Started. If I'm Writing A Script, Really 90 Per Cent Of It Would Be Just Walking Around, Climbing The Walls, Just Trying To Put The Idea Together. Then The Final 10 Per Cent Would Be Writing It.