To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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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’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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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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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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