Aaron Sorkin: From Addict to Academy Award Nominee 

"a big deal screenwriter, producer & crackhead..."

I live how someone who is famed for his rapid, smart and fluid dialogue sometimes struggles with real life conversation

I admire his intellect, and I think he's a brilliant writer.

If you notice, he is in love with dialogue; that's why his screenplays are so compelling. The interaction between characters through the medium of language. What you see is a play that happens to be televised or shot for a movie. He is brilliant.

Some of my favourite movie quotes ever are his. "I'm 6'5", 220 pounds and there's two of me" totally caught me off guard when I watched this movie, amazing.

'A TV Series about a Cable News Show' was ducking epic!

He's absolutely phenomenal with the written word.

Hate the way she keeps interrupting him

Loved seeing the pic of MR SORKIN graduating in 1983 .....around 3 minutes into story.... with mom and dad and sister..... interesting to see FACES of his mom and dad....! thanks for this heads up!

Any writer will realise that he most likely choose to not include his Zuckerburgs asian girlfriend because the character needed a motivation for creating Facebook and working hard at it, and him being broken hearted and bitter was a good one.

Aaron Sorkin, a true genius and gentleman of our time, what a life of extreme ups and extreme downs he has had.

Brilliant, brilliant man.

Wow. Aaron Sorkin now has acclaim because he's dedicated to his passion of writing by "feeding" his passion through research it seems but also by two other things that are very obvious. He's a BIG THINKER. No surprise there. And, it seems to me that he has a creative mindset. No surprise there either. AND. Least of which is his perseverance. Until he could get an agent, he kept writing his thoughts on cocktail napkins! Why? Because whether it was cocktail napkins or index cards or 81/2 X 11 pieces of paper, he captured every thought "in the moment". Which freed up his mind to further think & be creative. He talked out loud to himself

Mr. Sorkin has helped to Make America Smart Again. I agree completely with his attitude of disliking the approval of acting and being stupid and ignorant, and the importance of using intelligence!

Sorkin wasn't glamorizing intelligence. He was saying Palin is glamorizing stupidity. And she does. Including a large portion of the Republicans and all Tea Party members. They talk about "liberal elite" as a derogatory term, referring to smart and educated people. Like Rick Santorum calling Obama a snob for wanting to send everyone to college. As if education is a bad thing. Remember Joe the Plummer? Main Street? The Heartland of America being the REAL America? Regular folk? Straight talk?

Fair point, but half what Sorkin is saying is that it is terrifying someone as dim as her got so close to holding one of the most powerful offices in the world without someone saying she was criminally under qualified. You're right, you get good stupid people and evil clever people, but intelligence isn't just a consideration when you're talking about this sort of responsibility, it's a basic prerequisite.

In spite of Lesley Stahl, he is always a good interview!!

Clicked on this for the Lewis Black screencap.

Newsroom (Sloan!), The West Wing, A Few Good Men, Charlie Wilson's War, Moneyball, The Social Network, Molly's Game, and more - Aaron Sorkin and John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer (Kane and Abel, and The Prodigal Daughter) are arguably 3 of the best writers of the 20th and 21st century

I love how the interviewer says "screenwriter, producer, and crackhead". It's just so disrespectful, I can't even 😂