If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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I 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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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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