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.
AARON SORKINThe stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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The 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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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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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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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.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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