As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
AARON SORKINI 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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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 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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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 want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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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 sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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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