Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKINI 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.
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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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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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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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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.
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