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.
AARON SORKINThere are no Asian movie stars
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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.
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