There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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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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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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