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.
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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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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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’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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