Aaron Sorkin
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 Steve Jobs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth9 June 1961
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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.
Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
I don't believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of 'fairness' is what's troubling to me.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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.
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.
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.