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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

~Aaron Sorkin

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I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: About Am Anybody Anybody Else Else Feel Itself Me No Problem Problem Project Same See Seems Should Speak Talking Things Uncomfortable Work Write I Am I See I Feel I Write

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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

~Aaron Sorkin

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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Journalism Politics Sophisticated

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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

~Aaron Sorkin

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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

~Aaron Sorkin

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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

~Aaron Sorkin

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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Added Believe Home Jobs Like Minutes More Movie Offices Person Place Seventh Steve Steve Jobs Takes Than Them Things Think Total Up You I Believe

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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Climbing Come Drive First Hours Me Months Pacing Scene Scenes Spend Trying Up Walls

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: June 9th, 1961

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