When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
AARON SORKINI’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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 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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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