People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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 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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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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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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