People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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