You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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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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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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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 have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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