While I was doing ‘The Newsroom,’ I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
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. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
When we were doing ‘The West Wing,’ the hardest thing about doing ‘The West Wing’ was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of ‘The West Wing,’ and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I’ve got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I’m not exaggerating. I’m not a germaphobe: it’s all about a fresh start. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that’s especially true of Shakespeare. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I’m more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But ‘Steve Jobs’ and ‘The Social Network’ have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they’re making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I’m walking a plank. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
I’m not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism. Aaron Sorkin Read Quote
