Aaron Sorkin

Screenwriter

222 Quotes

Baiklah, saya harus memberi tahu Anda bahwa saya menulis skrip yang sangat dekat dengan tulang. Jadi saya menulis episode tujuh sekarang dan tidak bisa memberi tahu Anda apa yang terjadi di episode delapan.

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.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

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.

I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

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.

'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.

Kita hidup di dunia yang memiliki tembok dan tembok itu harus dijaga oleh orang-orang bersenjata.

Tentu saja, tahun lalu kami membuat episode tentang sensus dan pengambilan sampel versus statistik langsung. Anda baru saja mengucapkan kata 'sensus', dan orang-orang tertidur.

Ada beberapa kesalahan menuju Anda. Kuharap aku bisa memberitahumu bahwa ada trik untuk menghindari kekacauan ... tapi mereka datang untukmu. Ini adalah kombinasi dari kehidupan yang tidak dapat diprediksi, dan Anda menjadi sangat bodoh.

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

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.

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

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.

Ini kombinasi kehidupan yang tidak dapat diprediksi, dan Anda menjadi sangat bodoh.

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

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.

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

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.

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