Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something… — 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 think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — 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
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
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
I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — 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
