Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth9 June 1961
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
There are no Asian movie stars
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.