Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
Never argue with a drunk or a fool. Aaron Sorkin
Never argue with a drunk or a fool. Aaron Sorkin
It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while. Aaron Sorkin
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good. Aaron Sorkin
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world. Aaron Sorkin
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress. Aaron Sorkin
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people … Read More
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 … Read More
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. Aaron Sorkin
It’s certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I’m relatively indifferent about, … Read More
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing ER … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More