If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
AARON SORKINConflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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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 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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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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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