Toby Zeigler: There's Literally No One In

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.

Pretty Much Up Until The West Wing, Our Leaders Had Always Been Portrayed In Popular Culture As Either Machiavellian Or Dolts. But I Thought, "what If We Show A Group Of People Who Are Highly Competent, They're Going To Lose As Much As They Win, But We're Going To Understand That They Wake Up Every Morning Wanting To Do Good?" That Was Really The Spirit Behind The West Wing.

I Consider Plot A Necessary Intrusion On What I Really Want To Do, Which Is Write Snappy Dialogue. But When I'm Writing, The Way The Words Sound Is As Important To Me As What They Mean.

Humans Know When It's Not A Good Story. Unless You Do This For A Living, You May Not Know Exactly Why You Don't Like A Story, But You Can't Fool An Audience Ever. They Know When You Have It And They Know When You Don't.

Never Argue With A Drunk Or A Fool.