Aaron Sorkin

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

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

— Aaron Sorkin

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to…

— Aaron Sorkin

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but…

— Aaron Sorkin

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

— Aaron Sorkin

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…

— Aaron Sorkin

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on…

— Aaron Sorkin

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

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

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

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

— Aaron Sorkin

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups...…

— Aaron Sorkin

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of…

— Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument…

— Aaron Sorkin

“There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around…

— Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you…

— Aaron Sorkin

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that…

— Aaron Sorkin

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

“In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does…

— Aaron Sorkin

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to…

— Aaron Sorkin

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

— Aaron Sorkin

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better…

— Aaron Sorkin

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

“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.…

— Aaron Sorkin

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

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and…

— Aaron Sorkin

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

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,'…

— Aaron Sorkin