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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

Aaron Sorkin

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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King Palace Story Storytelling Thousand Tradition Year
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
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.
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Bone Close Eight Episode Must Script Tell Writing
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
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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Barometric Believe Gay Hurricane Liberal Pressure Registered Republican
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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Believe Biometric Gay Liberal Pressure Republican
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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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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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Beach Build Hand Mountain Sorta Talking Writing
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Guarded Gun Live Men Military Wall World
There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Audience Circuit Complete Connection Process Room Sunlight Writing
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
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.
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Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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Believe Black Issue Least Presenting White World
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Alan Clarify Division Doe Labor Show Writing

I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

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