Quote

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Aaron Sorkin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
Feels
Trying
Mind
Something
Strongly
Obligation
Change
Feel

More quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Image
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
What'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 Sorkin
Image
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.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
Image
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
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.
Aaron Sorkin