A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
AARON SORKIN
Trying 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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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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 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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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