It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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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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