Quotes About Sorkin

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.

Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'

Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.