Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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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’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’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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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