Aaron Sorkin
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Aaron Sorkin is a renowned screenwriter and playwright known for his impactful narratives that explore complex themes of morality and democracy. This interview reveals his ability to envision bold futures through storytelling, as he articulates the importance of character development and the moral imperatives that drive his creative process.
“Not just being healthy, but understand that when you're using, when you're a drug addict, you're lying all the time to people. You're lying about why you missed that meeting or didn't return that phone call or the whole shebang. It's awful. And I wasn't doing that anymore. I was a good guy.”
“I know. Listen, I have the equal amount of anxiety writing any. I the The anxiety that I was feeling in that initial phone call of this is to kill a mockingbird, what am I doing? All I can do really is make it less than it was. Yeah And why would I want to put on a nightly display comparing my skills to Harp Release?”
“If I know that there's a weekend, a Friday through Sunday, where I'm not supposed to be anywhere, where I'm a father now, I wasn't then, if my daughter's going out of town with her mother, I'm not expected to be at a meeting. I start doing all the mental math.”
“Sure. And they refer to themselves that way. In writing the character of Bob Ewell in the play. To me, he was, listen, ordinarily, if I'm writing an antehero or an antagonist, a villain, I can identify something. In that character. I don't want to judge the character.”
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