The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
AARON SORKINThere are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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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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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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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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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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