Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men, The Farnsworth Invention and To Kill a Mockingbird; 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 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, among other awards. He made his feature directorial debut in 2017 with Molly's Game, which he also wrote.

Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts. Wikipedia  

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“Socializing on the internet is to socializing, what reality TV is to reality.”

The Colbert Report http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/360641/september-30-2010/aaron-sorkin at 7m35s. Aired 2010/09/30, retrieved 2010/10/16.
said whilst promoting The Social Network in an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report in defense of not having a Facebook account.

“The worst crime you can commit is telling the audience something they already know, in any fashion, even for a moment.”

[David Marchese, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/02/magazine/aaron-sorkin-interview.html?fbclid=IwAR3oNlfDJVpKDH4pjapLoSHjdT1kiW2Pa2sUhq_7qR5priCrjz7SSydwk0I, Aaron Sorkin on how he would write the Democratic primary for ‘The West Wing.’, New York Times, March 1, 2020, March 2, 2020]

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