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 SORKINThe downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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