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, Fairy Tale, Long, You, 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, World

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, Friends, Hands

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, Roommates, Apple, First

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, World, Me, Thought, Networking

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

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, Dance, Hate, People, Writing

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

Internet, Reality, Think, Reality TV, TV

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

Want, Dialogue, Write, Plot, Necessary

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, Thought, Bond, Done, Her, Mean

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, Survival, You, Company, Pay

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats. Aaron Sorkin

Work, Men, Back, Hats, Heroes, Bring

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

I Am, Voice, Internet, Think, Done, Just

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night. Aaron Sorkin

Live, Romantic, People, Night, Small

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

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

Time, Man, Smart, Black, First Time, Guy

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, Kings, Years, Old

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. Aaron Sorkin

Life, Dumb, You, Unpredictable, Being

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. Aaron Sorkin

Life, Wish, Dumb, You, I Wish, Way

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

Ideas, Walking, Feeling, Days, Most

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, Along, Going

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

Culture, People, Writing, Government

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, Everything, Well

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

Life, Death, Writing, Page, Easy, Never

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, World, Black, Believe

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set. Aaron Sorkin

Small, House, Air Force, White, Air

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

J. Michael Straczynski

David O. Selznick

Gene Roddenberry

Cecil B. DeMille

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 BrainyQuote

Language: Español | Français

Please disable your ad blocker

OK