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 SORKINI’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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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 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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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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