I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
AARON SORKINI like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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