Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

About Aaron Sorkin:

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the upcoming Steve Jobs.
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Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

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There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

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It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

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DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

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TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.

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We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

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Decisions are made by those who show up.

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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

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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.

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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

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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.

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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

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

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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 they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

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Author Bio

  • NameAaron Sorkin
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter, producer, playwright
  • BornJune 9, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Producer; Playwright; Writer; Actor
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award