This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
AARON SORKINMy 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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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’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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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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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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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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’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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