The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.
Aaron SorkinJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
Aaron SorkinWell, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron SorkinIt seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Aaron SorkinOne of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
Aaron Sorkin