I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
AARON SORKINConflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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