The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
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. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I can’t remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It’s frustrating because sometimes I dream that I’m watching a really good movie. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing – when words won’t do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I’m crazy about ‘Breaking Bad,’ but I wouldn’t know how to write an episode of it. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I get the ‘The New York Times’ and ‘Los Angeles Times’ thrown at my door every morning. I’ll read the front page of ‘The New York Times,’ then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the ‘L.A. Times.’ Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
