The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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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 think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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