I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
AARON SORKINMy 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 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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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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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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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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 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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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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