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.
AARON SORKINWhat’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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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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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