black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There are no Asian movie stars

Aaron Sorkin

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.
AARON SORKIN

King Palace Story Storytelling Thousand Tradition Year
It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKIN

Film Kill Newspapers Pick Watch
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
AARON SORKIN

Hate Literally No One Right Toby World
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.
AARON SORKIN

Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKIN

Citizen Decision Forget World
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
AARON SORKIN

DifferentTelling might Organization Responsibility Sophisticated Stories
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
AARON SORKIN

Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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.
AARON SORKIN

Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
AARON SORKIN

Cooler Dark Desk Night Privacy Real Sexy Smoother Socialize
When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
AARON SORKIN

Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKIN

Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKIN

Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKIN

Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKIN

Anything Considerable Difficult Fake Learn People Real Rule Tend
I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKIN

America Anyone Conservation Conservative Country Goal Hard Right Mediocre Met
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
AARON SORKIN

Direct Directors Going Not Want Writing

There are no Asian movie stars

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There are no Asian movie stars

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aaron Sorkin Quotes