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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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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'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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
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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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Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
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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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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
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A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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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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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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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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