I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
AARON SORKINIf 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.
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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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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.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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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 want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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 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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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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