With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKINThat’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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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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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