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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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Film Director
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.
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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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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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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.
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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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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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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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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, 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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You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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