It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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’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.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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