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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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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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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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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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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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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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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.
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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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