To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKINToby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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