Aaron Sorkin Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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• I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

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  House, Workplace, Glamorous

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 9/11. Suddenly everyone in the world had been through something that our characters had not been through; the whole trajectory of the world had changed. Yet our show took place in a parallel universe. I wasn't really sure what to do about this. In no one's wildest dreams did it occur that an event like this could possibly happen.

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  Dream, Character, World

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.

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  Husband, Father, Son

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

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• Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s American sitcoms, the characters don't live any place in particular, religion is never discussed, politics is never discussed, you never really know what anyone's job is; nothing that could make these people seem different from you is ever discussed.

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  Character, Goal, People

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

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• I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

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  Play, Care, Be Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

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  Writing, Play, Watches

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• When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Directors, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Division Of Labor, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

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  Writing, Play, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

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  Ideas, Able, Coming Back

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Boys, Play, Roles

  "Aaron Sorkin Claims That Women in Hollywood Have it Easier Than Men" by Sam Rigby, www.elle.com. December 16, 2014.

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• I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

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  Writing, Thinking, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

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  Clever, Smart, Writing

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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.

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  Fun, Cameras, Jerk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

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  Graduation, Dumb, Screw Ups

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

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  School, Kids, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

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  Doctors, News, Persons

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• 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 that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

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  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Play, Musician, Sound

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

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• Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

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  War, Worry, Film

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• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

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  Believe, Black And White, Issues

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• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

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  Writing, Eight, Scripts

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• 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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