If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINWhen I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
AARON SORKINI don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
AARON SORKINThere’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.
AARON SORKINWhat’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.
AARON SORKINHonestly, 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.
AARON SORKINAny 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.
AARON SORKINTo use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKINThis is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
AARON SORKINNever argue with a drunk or a fool.
AARON SORKINThe downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
AARON SORKINToby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
AARON SORKINHelen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
AARON SORKINWe live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINWe live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINYou know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
AARON SORKIN