People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
AARON SORKINRoxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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