Aaron Sorkin Quotes

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.

I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

If it is a good film, the audience will like it. They will take to it if it is made with a certain amount of integrity.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

Star power will always remain relevant but content has become the king.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.