It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINThe 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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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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 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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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