Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
AARON SORKINThere are no Asian movie stars
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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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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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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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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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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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.
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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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