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 SORKINWhen 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
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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