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.
AARON SORKINFilm doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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