Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
AARON SORKINRoxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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