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.
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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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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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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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