Aaron Sorkin Quotes

American - Producer Born: June 9, 1961

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable. Aaron Sorkin

Other, Going, Kind

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

Small, Thoughtful, Change

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done. Aaron Sorkin

Voice, Think, Having

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. Aaron Sorkin

Telling, Storytelling, Old

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank. Aaron Sorkin

Like, Ideas, Feeling

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality. Aaron Sorkin

Think, TV, I Think

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' Aaron Sorkin

Measured, Television, More

I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president. Aaron Sorkin

Symbolic, Maybe, Importance

Decisions are made by those who show up. - Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Aaron Sorkin

Made, Show, Decisions

I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent. Aaron Sorkin

Couch, Some, Balloons

The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite. Aaron Sorkin

Doing, Made, Bring

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc. Aaron Sorkin

Other, Almost, Character

With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story. Aaron Sorkin

Had, Thought, Networking

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie. Aaron Sorkin

Movie, Couple, Sometimes

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing. Aaron Sorkin

Movie, Studio, Away

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death. Aaron Sorkin

Never, Death, Life And Death

'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls. Aaron Sorkin

Game, Named, True Story

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. Aaron Sorkin

About, Two People, Any

Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice. Aaron Sorkin

Voice, Hands, Father

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited. Aaron Sorkin

Very, Limited, Goes

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

Bad, Audience, Satisfy

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Aaron Sorkin

Nothin, Friends, You

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like. Aaron Sorkin

Love, Some, Agent

I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again. Aaron Sorkin

Doing, Good, Anything

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors. Aaron Sorkin

Play, Very, Couple

When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people? Aaron Sorkin

Behind, Thought, About

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