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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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 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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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