The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille...
IRA SORKIN The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth...
IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.
IRA SORKIN Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene...
AARON SORKIN The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This th...
AARON SORKIN I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is reall...
AARON SORKIN I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w...
AARON SORKIN I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines...
AARON SORKIN Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between l...
AARON SORKIN I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And...
AARON SORKIN It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I thin...
AARON SORKIN Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands...
AARON SORKIN It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKIN Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an ...
AARON SORKIN Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail ...
AARON SORKIN You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're pres...
AARON SORKIN Decisions are made by those who show up.
AARON SORKIN I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My fi...
AARON SORKIN Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the onl...
AARON SORKIN There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding...
AARON SORKIN I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
AARON SORKIN I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not litera...
AARON SORKIN I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind ...
AARON SORKIN If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nic...
AARON SORKIN I have to allow for the possibility that I'm not just writing the season finale, that I'm writing th...
AARON SORKIN A Few Good Men
AARON SORKIN The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I...
AARON SORKIN The play was written before 9/11 and July 7 and Abu Ghraib and a lot of things that have informed ho...
AARON SORKIN I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dial...
AARON SORKIN The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be...
AARON SORKIN I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some o...
AARON SORKIN More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek ...
AARON SORKIN We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take libe...
AARON SORKIN There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories abo...
AARON SORKIN Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You ...
AARON SORKIN Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
It’s not the greatest country i...
AARON SORKIN I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are...
AARON SORKIN As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fair...
AARON SORKIN The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was writte...
AARON SORKIN I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or ...
AARON SORKIN I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red...
AARON SORKIN When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So...
AARON SORKIN I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I&...
AARON SORKIN With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool...
AARON SORKIN Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photogra...
AARON SORKIN First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the wal...
AARON SORKIN I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But m...
AARON SORKIN I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
AARON SORKIN I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this smal...
AARON SORKIN Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad reci...
AARON SORKIN 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She wa...
AARON SORKIN Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed,
AARON SORKIN I can kind of put any piece of red meat out on the table -- census, proportional response, slavery r...
AARON SORKIN My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, ...
AARON SORKIN While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on differen...
AARON SORKIN There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' '...
AARON SORKIN I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled s...
AARON SORKIN I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get ner...
AARON SORKIN I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Soc...
AARON SORKIN I like how you call homosexuality an abomination."
"I don't say homosexuality's an abomination,...
AARON SORKIN I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking ...
AARON SORKIN I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
AARON SORKIN I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skyc...
AARON SORKIN Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What'...
AARON SORKIN When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders i...
AARON SORKIN When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' wa...
AARON SORKIN If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump ...
AARON SORKIN It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'Th...
AARON SORKIN I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as tra...
AARON SORKIN Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart peo...
AARON SORKIN This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
AARON SORKIN My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young t...
AARON SORKIN I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morni...
AARON SORKIN Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's enterta...
AARON SORKIN Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven n...
AARON SORKIN The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody g...
AARON SORKIN I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
AARON SORKIN I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical ...
AARON SORKIN A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story....
AARON SORKIN I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
AARON SORKIN I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
AARON SORKIN I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a ...
AARON SORKIN I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But...
AARON SORKIN The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was i...
AARON SORKIN When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get togeth...
AARON SORKIN I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.
AARON SORKIN I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating b...
AARON SORKIN I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
AARON SORKIN 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there i...
AARON SORKIN The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially...
AARON SORKIN If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You ca...
AARON SORKIN I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and ...
AARON SORKIN But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watch...
AARON SORKIN Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That sai...
AARON SORKIN When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing ...
AARON SORKIN Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing we...
AARON SORKIN All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring b...
AARON SORKIN It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a ...
AARON SORKIN There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho...
AARON SORKIN And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
AARON SORKIN A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anym...
AARON SORKIN The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. ...
AARON SORKIN I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to...
AARON SORKIN Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of...
IRA SACHS As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
IRA SACHS I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
IRA SACHS Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a g...
IRA SACHS New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, ...
IRA SACHS One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly reali...
IRA SACHS 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces...
IRA SACHS You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
IRA SACHS What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
IRA SACHS My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joi...
IRA SACHS Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticat...
IRA SACHS I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
IRA SACHS For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
IRA SACHS You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
IRA SACHS Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men...
IRA HAYES The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what...
IRA GLASS I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
IRA GLASS I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
IRA GLASS I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download th...
IRA GLASS People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about th...
IRA GLASS Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, n...
IRA GLASS In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
IRA GLASS The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS I like excess. And giant M&M's.
IRA GLASS Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS Love is sweeping the country.
IRA GERSHWIN Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
IRA GERSHWIN One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, ...
IRA GLASS The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: ac...
IRA LEVIN I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
IRA GLASS I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN I would say John Hancock is a definite [buyout] candidate.
IRA ZUCKERMAN There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why H...
IRA GLASS Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative wor...
IRA GLASS We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news.
IRA ZUCKERMAN You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.
IRA ZUCKERMAN I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int...
IRA GLASS I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS The primary goal with the petition is to make sure the seniors are fully informed for the primaries.
IRA LEEDS These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercia...
IRA WINKLER All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN Any discussions around that are totally confidential.
IRA LUSTBADER When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER