“My parents took me to see plays, starting when I was very, very little, and I was too young to understand Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? when I was nine years old, but I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me, and I wanted to imitate that sound. So, as a result, I am very weak when it comes to plot, because I didn’t understand what was going on on stage, but I do enjoy writing dialogue that sounds like something.“
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Aaron Sorkin on the bonus material of The Social Network.
I am glad to see that he admits to this, because I find that he tends to fictionalize reality in a fashion that prefers theatricality to reality.
