Aaron Sorkin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Want To Convey That I'm Crazy About The Kardashians - But I'm Not Sure Which Is Which.

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.

I Think It's Up To Writers To Write Stuff That Is Compelling Enough That People Want To Watch.

With A Television Series, There's A Hard Deadline, And So You Have To Write Even When You're Not Writing Well.

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.

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.

As A Dramatist, You're Looking For Points Of Friction.

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.