What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
AARON SORKINAny 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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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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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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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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