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
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 believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon… — 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 think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a… — 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
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that… — 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
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks. — 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
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
