Aaron Sorkin Inspirational Quotes (103)

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.

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.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Honestly, 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.

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.