People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINI don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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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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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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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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 don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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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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