There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.
The West Wing' is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking.
I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.
Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
Ignorance is constricted awareness.
