The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
AARON SORKINI’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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