It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKINIf 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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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 think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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 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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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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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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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’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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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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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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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