Aaron Sorkin Quotes - Page 5

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• And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Lakes, Tahoe, Wheat

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Growing Up, Party, Believe

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• As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Friction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Aaron Sorkin

  Fall, Years, People

  Interview with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2000.

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• What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Giving, Interesting, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Watches, Film, Newspapers

  "How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly)". Interview with Mario Anzuoni, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 23, 2012.

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• That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Real, Tough Times, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Television, Deadline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Communication, Skills, People

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• I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kids, Past, Cooking Dinner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Crazy, Want, Not Sure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Country, Night, America

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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kings, Years, Stories

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• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Responsibility, Organization, Different

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• There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Connections, Rooms

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