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
John was an uncommonly good man, an exceptional role model and a brilliant actor.
I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind of thing,
Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed,
Well, what a show like this will do that conventional news reporting can't, is, we can show you the two minutes before and after what you see on CNN.
The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault.
I can justify those two things by simply saying, when that stops happening, when we lose our credibility, the show isn't as good.
The play was written before 9/11 and July 7 and Abu Ghraib and a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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.