Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I'm anxious to make another film.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

I like making movies.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

I want to make my own movie.

I love making movies.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.