You're Traveling Through Another Dimension,

Every Writer Is A Frustrated Actor Who Recites His Lines In The Hidden Auditorium Of His Skull.

I'd Love To Be Able To Write An In-depth Piece Of What Causes Men Like [richard] Nixon And [h.r.]haldeman And [john] Ehrlichman And All The Rest Of Them Not Only To Run, But What Causes Us To Vote For Them.

If You Need Drugs To Be A Good Writer, You Are Not A Good Writer.

If You Want To Prove That God Is Not Dead, First Prove That Man Is Alive.

Essentially, The Scripts Are Not That Different. Let's Say, In Literary Terms, It's The Difference Between Writing Horizontally And Writing Vertically. In Live Television, You Wrote Much More Vertically. You Had To Probe People Because You Didn't Have Money Or Sets Or Any Of The Physical Dimensions That Film Will Allow You. So You Generally Probed People A Little Bit More. Film Writing Is Much More Horizontal. You Can Insert Anything You Want: Meadows, Battlefields, The Taj Mahal, A Cast Of Thousands. But Essentially, Writing A Story Is Writing A Story.