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.
AARON SORKINI’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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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.
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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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