"We're running around trying to get the best editors and writers we can."
As a result, you get fine writers trying on a style that doesn't suit them.
They've got writers for those sorts of things, you know.
But the central notion of getting writers and soldiers together to see what happens is a good one.
But I didn't go, and they got other writers to finish it.
It's got good writers; the problem is that they have the attention span of kittens.
"We get writers who tell us their last publisher got them six to eight interviews."
They got new writers and animators to work on the show.
There are a lot of producers who tell me it's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft.
Still, voters can only hope both candidates get better writers before a State of the Union address comes their way.