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 SORKINWriters are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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 want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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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’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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