The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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 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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