Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.
I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.
My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.
