
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