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.
AARON SORKINI 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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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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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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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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 think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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