To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 9/11. Suddenly everyone in the world… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening at the very time I was writing the West Wing pilot and it was hard, at… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“I like how you call homosexuality an abomination." "I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does." "Yes it does.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
