I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show.
Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
I always loved television. I always loved movies.
I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.
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.
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.
I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.
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