I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
AARON SORKINI’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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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.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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