Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
AARON SORKINTrying 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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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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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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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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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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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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