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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

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
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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Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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Cooler Dark Desk Night Privacy Real Sexy Smoother Socialize
I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Watch Writing
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
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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King Palace Story Storytelling Thousand Tradition Year
There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Audience Circuit Complete Connection Process Room Sunlight Writing
I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Class Differently Opposed Screenplay Stage Teleplay Thinking Write Writing
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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America Country Greatest Recognizing World
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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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
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.
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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
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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Census Certain Episode Fall People Sampling Statis Versus Year
What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
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.
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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
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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Beach Castle Hand Sorta Stand Talking Writing
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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Able Create Director Hero People Writer

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