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Aaron Sorkin Biography

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, director, 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, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs. For writing The Social Network, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, among other awards. He made his feature directorial debut in 2017 with Molly's Game, which he also wrote.

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I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

Class, Play, Teleplay, Thinking, Writing

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Academy, Awards, Father, Guinea, Pigs, Sorkin

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre. " That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

America, Conservative, Goal, Mediocre, Met

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Believe, Family, Grew, Growing Up, Know, Party

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Government, People, Together, Gets

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Kings, Palaces, Stories, Telling, Years

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Borrow, Good Writers, Great Writers, Outright, Stealing, Writers

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.

Fool, Good, Humans, May, Stories

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

Gun, Guns, Live, Military, Wall, World

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience, Good, Guess, Recipes, Trying, Want

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

Beach, Castle, Hands, Sand, Sorta, Writing

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

Age, Athlete, Get Better, Opposite, Opposites, Writers

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

Bar, Bars, Guy, Winning, Woman

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different, Manner, Organization, Properly, Responsibility, Sophisticated

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Facebook, Like Facebook, Night, Nights, Week

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

Identity, Pill, Swallow, Tough, Work, Writing

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

Audience, Course, Member, Musician, Play, Sound

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Artist, Job, Jobs, Lucky, Stumble

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.

Television, Theater, Critics, Bummed, Agree

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

Smart, Thinking, Rooms, Thinks, Disagrees

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