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.
AARON SORKINHelen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
-
-
I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
AARON SORKIN -
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 SORKIN -
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKIN -
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 -
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
AARON SORKIN -
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
AARON SORKIN -
I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
AARON SORKIN -
My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKIN -
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKIN -
It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKIN -
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
AARON SORKIN -
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKIN -
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
AARON SORKIN