There are no Asian movie stars
AARON SORKINThere’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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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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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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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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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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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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