If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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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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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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’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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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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