You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I… — 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 don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Margaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future? Leo: Yeah. Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's… — 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
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