There's A Great Tradition In Storytelling That's

Elite Is Not A Bad Word, It's An Aspirational One.

As A Dramatist, You're Looking For Points Of Friction.

If You Close Your Eyes You Can Imagine The Hackers Sitting In A Room, Combing Through The Documents To Find The Ones That Will Draw The Most Blood. And In A Room Next Door Are American Journalists Doing The Same Thing. As Demented And Criminal As It Is, At Least The Hackers Are Doing It For A Cause. The Press Is Doing It For A Nickel.

I Got Into Dialogue Because My Parents Began Taking Me To See Plays From When I Was Very Young. Too Young, Often, To Understand The Play I Was Watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf When I Was Nine Years Old; That Championship Season When I Was Ten Years Old. But I Loved The Sound Of Dialogue; It Sounded Like Music To Me And I Wanted To Imitate That Sound.

Television From Its Inception Had The Number One Goal To Alienate As Few People As Possible. That's Why If You Look At 1950s, 1960s American Sitcoms, The Characters Don't Live Any Place In Particular, Religion Is Never Discussed, Politics Is Never Discussed, You Never Really Know What Anyone's Job Is; Nothing That Could Make These People Seem Different From You Is Ever Discussed.