Sorkin Quotes

I think mostly about intention and obstacle somebody wants something somethings standing in their way of getting it. — Aaron Sorkin

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — Aaron Sorkin

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. — Aaron Sorkin

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now. — Aaron Sorkin

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it. — Aaron Sorkin

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words. — Aaron Sorkin

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
(Joshua Malina, Sports Night) — Aaron Sorkin

You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this. — Aaron Sorkin

I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it. — Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up — Aaron Sorkin

PRESIDENT BARTLETT: See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them. — Aaron Sorkin

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare. — Aaron Sorkin

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. — Aaron Sorkin

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. — Aaron Sorkin

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

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction ... — Aaron Sorkin

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy. — Aaron Sorkin

You can't handle the truth! - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. — Aaron Sorkin

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you. — Aaron Sorkin

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

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable. — Aaron Sorkin

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

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you. — Aaron Sorkin

First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. — Aaron Sorkin

I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act. — Aaron Sorkin

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born — Aaron Sorkin

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great. — Aaron Sorkin

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. — Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are. — Aaron Sorkin

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

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?
Sam: No.
Toby: Somewhere in this building ... is our talent. — Aaron Sorkin

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper ... I'd rather have people know me on paper. — Aaron Sorkin

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. — Aaron Sorkin

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

Never argue with a drunk or a fool. — Aaron Sorkin

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy. — Michael Sorkin

Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing. — Lesli Linka Glatter

I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both. — Aaron Sorkin

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

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes. — Aaron Sorkin

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and sculng looks good to me.
Sam — Aaron Sorkin

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

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny. — Clark Gregg

The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance. — Aaron Sorkin

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

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos. — Aaron Sorkin

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women, — Aaron Sorkin

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks. — Aaron Sorkin

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played. — Chris Messina

In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one — Aaron Sorkin

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office. — Aaron Sorkin

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work. — Joshua Malina

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. — Aaron Sorkin

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders. — Brad Pitt

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which. — Aaron Sorkin

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster. — Aaron Sorkin

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

I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly. — Aaron Sorkin

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it. — Aaron Sorkin

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. — Aaron Sorkin

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

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is. — Alex Pareene

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story. — Aaron Sorkin

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good. — Aaron Sorkin

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace — Aaron Sorkin

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

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

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

There are no Asian movie stars — Aaron Sorkin

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. — Aaron Sorkin

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense. — Aaron Sorkin

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder. — Aaron Sorkin

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

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news. — Aaron Sorkin

DONNA: She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart? — Aaron Sorkin

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

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet. — Aaron Sorkin

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night. — Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe. — Aaron Sorkin

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn. — Aaron Sorkin

Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing. — Aaron Sorkin

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind. — Aaron Sorkin

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage. — Aaron Sorkin

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress. — Aaron Sorkin

Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.' — Ben Feldman

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. — Aaron Sorkin

You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met. — Aaron Sorkin