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 housenetworknews Change image and share on social
First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway. Aaron Sorkin climbdrivefreeway Change image and share on social
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. Aaron Sorkin daydisagreepeople Change image and share on social
When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing. Aaron Sorkin bulletcontextindividual share on social
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Aaron Sorkin borrowgoodgreat Change image and share on social
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent. Aaron Sorkin balloonboatercompany share on social
'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that. Aaron Sorkin addcourtroomhome share on social