We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINRoxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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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’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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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