I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
AARON SORKINDecisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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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’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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’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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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