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Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

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.'

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.