To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKINToby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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