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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
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Screenwriter
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Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
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Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
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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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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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.
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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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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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