The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKINToby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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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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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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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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.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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