Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKINRoxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKINOnly criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
AARON SORKINAnd a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
AARON SORKINElite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKINIt seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
AARON SORKINI have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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 SORKINTrying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
AARON SORKINIf you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINIt’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKINFilm doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
AARON SORKINIt wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKINThere are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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.
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