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.
AARON SORKINIt wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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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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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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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 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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