When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
AARON SORKINThe 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.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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