The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
AARON SORKINWriting 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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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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The 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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There are no Asian movie stars
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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