If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
AARON SORKINJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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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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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
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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