I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
AARON SORKINAny 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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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