You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
AARON SORKINTo use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
-
-
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.
AARON SORKIN -
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKIN -
With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKIN -
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
AARON SORKIN -
I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
AARON SORKIN -
My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
AARON SORKIN -
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
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.
AARON SORKIN -
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKIN -
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
AARON SORKIN -
There are no Asian movie stars
AARON SORKIN -
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
AARON SORKIN -
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKIN