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“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”

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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

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Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

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People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is…

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You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the…

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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,…

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She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

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“TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.”

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I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing ER and China Beach. The night before the meeting, some friends were over for dinner and Akiva Goldsman and I slipped downstairs to the basement so we could sneak a cigarette. He said, "You know what…

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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

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