People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINThe 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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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