With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKINRoxy 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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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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