If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINThere’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.
AARON SORKINThere are no Asian movie stars
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
AARON SORKINWhen I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
AARON SORKINThe first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKINWriting 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.
AARON SORKINI have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
AARON SORKINWith a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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.
AARON SORKINThe 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.
AARON SORKINYou 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.
AARON SORKINNever argue with a drunk or a fool.
AARON SORKINDecisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKINWhen I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKIN