black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Aaron Sorkin

President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
AARON SORKIN

Blue Cardiologist Delegation Picture President Room Taken Thinking
I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
AARON SORKIN

Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Watch Writing
Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
AARON SORKIN

Awesome Film Going Movie Theatre War Worry
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
AARON SORKIN

Bone Close Eight Episode Must Script Tell Writing
I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKIN

America Conservation Conservative Goal Hard Kind Right
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 SORKIN

Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
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.
AARON SORKIN

Able Create Director Hero People Writer
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKIN

Citizen Decision Forget World
With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKIN

Deadline Hard Not Well Series Television Write Writing
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.
AARON SORKIN

Consider Dialogue Important Intrusion Mean Necessary Plot Snappy Writing
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.
AARON SORKIN

Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKIN

Guarded Gun Live Men Military Wall World
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
AARON SORKIN

Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want Writing
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.
AARON SORKIN

Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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 SORKIN

America Country Greatest Recognizing World
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
AARON SORKIN

Direct Directors Going Not Want Writing

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aaron Sorkin Quotes