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.
AARON SORKINTrying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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When 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
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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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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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