Aaron Sorkin interview on "The West Wing" (2002)

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[@temporarystranger95]

I absolutely loved these comments, “I grew up surrounded by people a lot smarter than I am … whether it was at my dinner table or at a poker game, my friends. Just like learning the Torah phonetically, I began to learn the sound of intelligence, what that would sound like, and that’s how I would write…. The sound of dialogue is like symphony music to me.”

[@TobleroneCraft]

All of those papers around Charlie and none of them say “let Aaron finish an answer.”

[@tomlewis4748]

Yes! Let the man talk! We came here for Aaron. Not for Charlie.

[@Rary.0]

rose is great at interviews if it was always one of my favorite shows to watch. theres limited time and he has to keep the pace moving pretty much a thankless job. they do not have 4 hours to go through everything

[@temporarystranger95]

I love Aaron Sorkin’s self-criticism. He’s very reflective and introspective. Very interesting explanation of the salary situation regarding Rob Lowe.

[@robinmendelson5512]

Aaron, Aaron, Aaron. I loved season three.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

I hate this interview and it’s because of Charlie Rose never shuts up never backs off and never let Aaron finish his sentence.

[@chrisquinn7404]

How the hell did Charlie Rose get such a privileged position to interview all these amazing people, and yet have no capacity to do what great interviewers do, which is listen and give the space for interviewees to actually make it to the end of their sentences. It infuriates me.

[@JeffintheD]

Aaron’s training on how people talk and then replicating that with his writing sounds very much like how LLMs are pretrained and are used for generative AI.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

I remember watching sports night and specifically won the Josh Charles character got in trouble When he wouldn’t come out against drugs. It was going to lead to his dismissal from the show, and then came his soliloquy where he talked about his brother until the West Wing I had never cried so hard over a television episode in my life. From that point on Aaron Sorkin could do no wrong in my eyes. He still can’t

[@Dekker1921]

Does he hate Aaron? I found him so belittling.

[@dantean]

Jesus, get your tongue out of your hero's behind. Rose was perfectly pals-y with "Aaron" (first name basis, huh?) the way he was with every guest.

[@kendallandrews8691]

@@dantean Yeah Charlie Rose was professional and a good interview. Unfortunately he liked the ladies a little too much at work and they didn't reciprocate.

[@kendallandrews8691]

@Useonlyforstudy M'Dear yeah pretty much

[@jimmy2k4o]

Yeah I worship at the alter of sorkin as well as anybody with taste but Charlie -the interruption-rose was no more badly mannered than he is with people of lesser talent.

[@nick794]

Every few minutes the host thinks how do I interrupt him so that his train of thought breaks

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Sorkin aged 3X between this and his 1992 interview about A Few Good Men

[@felipejulius2045]

cocaine

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

Kevin Spacey plays a character. Access granted.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

Ya not the gauntlet.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

tsugumi is not coming.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

I don’t play games, Aaron.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

Charlie Rose gets back what he lost.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

Stop allowing people.

[@jayashreechakravarthy4949]

Alter their minds.

[@jameskeyes1131]

I miss Charley and Kevin Spacey. This obsession with people's personal sex lives has caused a lot of great people to disappear. Spacey was recently cleared of any responsibility in the incident with the teenager. Where does he go to get his career back?

[@jimmy2k4o]

Nobody is entitled to a career… not in entertainment, it’s purely capitalist. If people wanted to hire Kevin spacey no one will stop them, and if people want to see Kevin spacey no one will stop them. There’s no entertainment authority or actors license, it seems there just isn’t much demand for him. People see Kevin spacey as something worse than “people’s personal sex lives” and producers don’t want to alienate the audience by working with someone the general public find objectionable. Also just because someone was not found guilty doesn’t make them innocent. Look at OJ….

[@panthersfan6073]

Rob uh uh uh uh uh Lowe uh uh uh uh

[@temporarystranger95]

Love to read your high school/college papers. I bet I would have fun with grammatical errors. Aaron Sorkin is a brilliant writer, one of the best of his generation. I didn’t know he was supposed to be a great public speaker, too.

[@BOBBYSOX86]

Coke and crack fucked up his brain

[@MichaelEvans-i2r]

@@temporarystranger95 Wow. Do you sycophantically white knight for all the cokehead celebrities who tweak during an interview or is Sorkin special?

[@temporarystranger95]

@@MichaelEvans-i2r Say what you want about Sorkin’s personal issues, but there is no denying his brilliance as a writer. If you are unable to acknowledge that, I wonder who has the real problem.

[@MichaelEvans-i2r]

@@temporarystranger95 Brilliant is a strong word. Sorkin's fine, but he's only as good as the people he collaborates with. He's a thoroughbred one trick pony whose hyper-stylized patter is basically David Mamet at a faster tempo. Once you get accustomed to the sound of his writing you begin to notice the unimaginative tropes he repeatedly trots, how the characters are indistinguishable from one another, and that he's been retreading the same tired ground for years. When done well, it's engaging, but it's style over substance.

[@fdfac]

How do you manufacture intellect? Seriously, how?

[@jimmy2k4o]

17:40 I love sorkin but he’s at best wrong, and at worst dishonest. Gram for gram crack is more harshly punished than powder but this legislation was proposed, championed and passed by majority black legislators. They watched crack ravage their communities for decades and the mandatory minimums were their solution. After all crack is worse than powder, it’s more potent but lasts less time making it more abused, addictive and cheaper. Also gram for gram crack is policed the same as crystal meth, they have the same mandatory minimums. Crystal meth users are majority poor white people just like crack users are majority poor black people. So if the drugs are dealt with on an unfair or bigoted standard, then it’s based on class not race.