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.
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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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 want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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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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