People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINIt wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 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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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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