Aaron Sorkin
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"Aaron Benjamin Sorkin" is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men (play)/A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom (U.S. TV series)/The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men (film)/A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, and Moneyball (film)/Moneyball.

Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.

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The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind of thing.

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The play was written before 9/11 and July 7 and Abu Ghraib and a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

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I have to allow for the possibility that I'm not just writing the season finale, that I'm writing the series finale.

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The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault.

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A Few Good Men.

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If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nice in sweeps month to have that as our lead-in.

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