This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
AARON SORKINThe downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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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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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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.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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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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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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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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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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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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