Aaron Sorkin Quotes About Dialogue

Quotes about: Dialogue

• 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 a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Life, Real, Drama

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Mean, Important

  Interview with Jeff Daniels, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2012.

• I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Parent, Championship, Dialogue

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Drama, Writing, Perfection

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