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.
AARON SORKINFilm doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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