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.
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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 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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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That’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.
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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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