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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

Aaron Sorkin

It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

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