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 SORKINIt wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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 would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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