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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Film Actor
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Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
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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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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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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.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me? and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.
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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.
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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.
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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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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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.
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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 nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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