To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKINI’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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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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 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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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