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.
AARON SORKINWriters are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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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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