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.
AARON SORKINToby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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You 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.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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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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