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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
,
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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