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.
AARON SORKINI 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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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 think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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