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.
AARON SORKINThat’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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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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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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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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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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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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 wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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