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Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
American Producer
Born: Jun 9, 1961
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet. Aaron Sorkin
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare. Aaron Sorkin
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good. Aaron Sorkin
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office. Aaron Sorkin
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors. Aaron Sorkin
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera. Aaron Sorkin
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. Aaron Sorkin
Consider Plot Intrusion Write Dialogue Snappy Want Which Really Necessary
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. Aaron Sorkin
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Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts. Aaron Sorkin
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster. Aaron Sorkin
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I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself. Aaron Sorkin
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to. Aaron Sorkin
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies. Aaron Sorkin
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that. Aaron Sorkin
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person. Aaron Sorkin
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I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both. Aaron Sorkin
Love Facebook People Plenty Both Know Who Tweet
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie. Aaron Sorkin
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I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent. Aaron Sorkin
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