People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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