It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
AARON SORKINThe 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’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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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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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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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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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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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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 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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