People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you… — 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
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 Image
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 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 lit by… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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 Image
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image