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Aaron Sorkin

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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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The 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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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