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.
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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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