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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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
I can justify those two things by simply saying, when that stops happening, when we lose our credibility, the show isn't as good.
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed,
I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind of thing,
The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault.