With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKINThe 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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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 a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Trying 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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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