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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Aaron Sorkin

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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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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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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There 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.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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.
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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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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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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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You 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.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

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