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.
AARON SORKINThis is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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