I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKINWriting 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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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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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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’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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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