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
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.
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nice in sweeps month to have that as our lead-in.
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.
John was an uncommonly good man, an exceptional role model and a brilliant actor.
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.