Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKIN
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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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 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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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