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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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When 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
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I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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I 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.
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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, Always, and that was that.
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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.
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A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.
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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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