from: http://www.hollywoodlitsales.com/cf/journal/dspJournal.cfm?intID=2720

Or more accurately, Sorkin caught the dialogue bug, since he doesn't have near as much fun writing plot: "I don't have stories to tell...I'm not one of these guys who grew up around the campfire saying let me tell you another one, I got a million of them." Despite his award-winning career, Sorkin says, "It's a terrible struggle for me devising an intention and an obstacle that I feel holds water and that's interesting. I would much rather blather on [with dialogue]."

> I can relate! Ganito din ako. Bobo talaga ako sa plot things! At favorite ko ang pagsusulat ng dialogue, kaya ansakit gumawa ng treatment lang, yung wala pang dialogue. It's usually the last thing being put on the script.

"Sorkin doesn't speak into a tape recorder to get the rhythm of his trademark dialogue down, either. Sorkin: "I tried doing that but I can't. When I tried using a tape player, when I tried dictating I'd freeze up immediately. It's walking around talking to myself, it's being in the car and talking to myself." Indeed, Sorkin seems practically a Mennonite when it comes to technology: "The problem I have with these new-fangled computers is that they don't make a good sound...The [clacking] sound a typewriter made you felt like you were working, felt like you were doing a day's work."

> That's why I love this laptop! The keys are clunky enough to make a sound.

Sorkin soon learned from fellow screenwriter William Goldman to "screw the format" -- don't worry about camera angles, tracking shots and close-ups, just write a script that hooks a reader on an emotional, page-turning level. Unless that happens, all the camera angleSo "Men"'s director Rob Reiner taught Sorkin how to do the "walk and talk" -- the characters would get out large blocks of dialogue while moving from room to hallway to parking lot, usually in one long Steadicam shot. This allowed Sorkin to keep his lines without sacrificing visual energy, and is something he used quite frequently on "The West Wing".s in the world won't save it.

> I say, screw the process too! Hahaha write all the dialogues that pass through your head :)) Edit later.

Sorkin "also like[s] description to take as much time for the reader as it's going to take to happen onscreen". If a woman storms into a room and storms back out again, Sorkin says, "I'm not going to describe what she's wearing. It couldn't be less important." Pace and flow trump those kinds of details.

> Makes sense! Wardrobe kayo na bahala dyan hahaha.

So "Men"'s director Rob Reiner taught Sorkin how to do the "walk and talk" -- the characters would get out large blocks of dialogue while moving from room to hallway to parking lot, usually in one long Steadicam shot. This allowed Sorkin to keep his lines without sacrificing visual energy, and is something he used quite frequently on "The West Wing".

> Gusto ko rin mag Walk and Talk!

Nevertheless, Sorkin admits, "Writing something well, writing something that people like, that's funny or good or emotional, it's my only means of showing off. And that's something I like to do. And so if I have an idea for something I want it to get on paper as quickly as possible so I can show it to people as quickly as I can and get that affection I so crave from strangers." So if you're looking for love, get out there and write -- I know I will!

> I love that! Kind of feel that way myself.