I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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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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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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