Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the…

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

— Aaron Sorkin

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by…

— Aaron Sorkin

One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being…

— Aaron Sorkin

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…

— Aaron Sorkin

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

— Aaron Sorkin

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,…

— Aaron Sorkin

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

— Aaron Sorkin

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

— Aaron Sorkin

“TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.”

— Aaron Sorkin

I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing…

— Aaron Sorkin

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.

— Aaron Sorkin

Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s…

— Aaron Sorkin

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens…

— Aaron Sorkin

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,…

— Aaron Sorkin