Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKIN
There are no Asian movie stars
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
-
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
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 SORKIN -
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKIN -
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
AARON SORKIN -
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
AARON SORKIN -
I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
AARON SORKIN -
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKIN -
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
AARON SORKIN -
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKIN