Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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 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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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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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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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