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

World, Long, You, Fairy Tale, Kind, Real

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

Change, Change The World, People, Small

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

Father, Best, People, Think, Hands, You

I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent. Aaron Sorkin

Great, Bond, Thought, Done, Mean, Secret

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

Good, Great, Other, Borrow, Steal, Them

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person. Aaron Sorkin

Happy, Writing, Person, Different, Like

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

Great, Tradition, Storytelling, Kings

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

Friend, Hat, You, Survival, Kind, Rent

I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music. Aaron Sorkin

Music, Memory, Apple, Roommates, First

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, Time, Hate, Dance, People, Writing

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

Cool, Networking, Me, Story, World

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. Aaron Sorkin

Want, Write, Dialogue, Plot, Consider

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. Aaron Sorkin

Communication, Great, Day, People, Me

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

Decisions are made by those who show up. Aaron Sorkin

Decisions, Up, Show, Made, Who, Those

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. Aaron Sorkin

Black And White, Black, World, Believe

I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start. Aaron Sorkin

Good, Morning, Time, Day, Writing, Start

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

Good, Dreams, Wake Up, Remember, Dream

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

Internet, Reality, Think, Reality TV, TV

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it. Aaron Sorkin

Best, Me, Want, Director, Social, Along

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

Together, Internet, Doing, Find, See, Us

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. Aaron Sorkin

Writing, You, Now, Bone, Tell, Well

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

Business, Nice, Difference, Audience

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel. Aaron Sorkin

Fun, I Am, Writing, Political, Way, Out

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue. Aaron Sorkin

Parents, Loved, Thinking, Me, Know, Kind

If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable. Aaron Sorkin

Character, Find, Watching, West, Show

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion. Aaron Sorkin

Freedom, Sea, Alone, Man, Value, Boat

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