People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINWith 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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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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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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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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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