>> one of the most famous lines in hollywood history. >> the truth? you can't handle the truth. >> a few good men catapulted aaron sorkin from an actor to celebrated screenwriter, producer, and conflicted character creator. the westn to bring us wing, moneyball, the social network, and the newsroom on hbo. if the steve jobs biopic coming soon. 1.0,ng me today on studio and he, golden globe and academy award winner aaron sorkin. thank you for being here.

ans no pressure to write intro for one of the most famous writers in the world. >> i appreciate it. wrapped the last, third and final season of newsroom. >> i feel great. this third season i think is the best of the three by far. i think it took me a while to learn how to write the show. it started to feel good in the third season. >> tell me about the process. >> i love serious television. the schedule is for roche is and you have no time -- is ferocious . you have no time so you have to write even when you're not writing well. has had its share of fanatical fans and also its share of critics. had you deal with that? >> what i write is not going to be everybody's cup of tea. you learn that pretty early on and you do the show for people who like it.

>> the media is obsessed with ratings, criticized for being too sensational. >> i think that my perception is no more expert than anyone else just because i have written the newsroom. >> but you are a viewer. >> it can feel when you're watching the news that they are desperate for you not to change the channel. there is a perception when the newsroom began that advice is exactly what i was trying to give. here is how you do it. the show was never set up to do that. i just wanted to inject it with a sense of idealism and romanticism. >> what freedom did hbo give you to create your story and tell your story that you wouldn't of had on a traditional network? that you wouldn't of had 10 years ago? >> hbo gave me complete freedom. the real difference is that when , there on network tv

network is in business with the advertisers. hbo is in business with the audience. hbo doesn't care how many people are watching the show. they just care how much the people who are watching the show like the show. model that business a writer would love. >> they have to care about subscribers? care about subscribers and people need to be talking about their show. writing about the show, political acclaim. once you subscribe to hbo, they don't care if you're watching the newsroom or boardwalk empire or anything else. they are not trying to sell you a toaster in between acts. options.talk about the netflix, amazon tv.

how press have you been for some of these other outlets? writer, the more vendors that there are for content, the better. obviously, netflix is on fire cards and orange is the new black. house.has alpha nontraditional tv is great. >> are you a binge watcher? >> yes. of new stuff, i am a binge watcher of old stuff. i can spend the weekend watching the office. all nine seasons. i have done nothing but watch 200 episodes. this the golden age of television? is content better than it's ever been before? >> i think content is better than it has ever been before. most television is very good but

there is more on the high-end now. ishow much more competition there for writers like you, show runners like you? >> i don't see it that way. if you have something good, it's going to be good. >> i have this vision of netflix and amazon throwing money at you. any visionever had of amazon and netflix throwing money at me. >> does it change how much you are paid or how you are paid? >> sure. to makere in a position money for other people, if you get a track record, if you in business with somebody very quickly trying to play in the big leagues like netflix and amazon, they will want to attract people with track records. money is one way they will do that. honestly, you get to a certain point where that is not the most

important thing to you. thing to yourtant is a story well told. >> would you write or produce for netflix or amazon? >> i would absolutely right for netflix or bloomberg. >> great. >> i think that bloomberg should have more scripted content. i would love to do a show for bloomberg. a series thatt is was critically acclaimed with a small audience. if amazon came to you and said we wanted to give you season three like we did with arrested development, would you do it? >> i would. name allhappened to the right elements. not soes i think about much the third season of sports night but doing sports night again. taking the exact same premise behind the scenes.

>> have you pitched it? >> no, i just did. >> we will let the networks know. >> should traditional networks be worried? >> i think there are affective things on network tv, but i think that people just don't watch tv the same anymore. this generation just doesn't mean anything. i take anywhere from six to eight showers a day. i am not exaggerating. i'm not a german folk. it has nothing to do with germs. -- a germ oophobe. it has nothing to do with germs. ♪

>> you were born in new york city. what kind of kid were you? be what i am. >> this was your dream? >> it was. my parents took me to see plays. i love the sound of dialogue. it sounded like music to me and

i wanted to imitate that sound. i came to new york to start my life as a struggling writer. i was paying the bills a hundred different ways. i was dressing up as a moose in times square. there was a canceled soap opera that i was acting on from time to time. i was doing all of that while i was writing my first play which was a few good men on cocktail napkins behind the bar where i was working. pocket, comein my home, dumped them out and type them up. it was just called the macintosh at the time. >> a few good men opened on broadway. and then it went to hollywood. struck.ning >> you were 28 years old. >> the film rights were sold instantly and nicole kidman can to see the play. she was married to tom cruise at the time.

at intermission, she called her husband and said, come see this play. you will want to play this part. i just got all the bounces. i was very lucky. handle the truth. did you have any idea how much that line would reverberate? >> i remember oddly enough when i wrote it. it was about 2 a.m. and i was writing the speech and getting very excited because i knew i was almost done with the play. i was rounding third base and coming for home. i was writing with a lot of energy. i wrote the line in the time it took me to type it. >> you also gave jack nicholson the performance of a lifetime. >> i think jack has done just fine without me. he had a very healthy career before i came along.

>> were you paranoid you could never do it again? what does that feel like? >> that feeling has never gone away. i have written six movies, a seventh about to go under production. 190 episodes of television and plays. every time i finish a script, i always feel like i am never going to be able to write another one. it is a terrible feeling. i have used all the words i know in every order i can put them in. i can't think of a story. myths about the founders, creators, innovators often boil down into legend. what is the myth of aaron sorkin and what is the reality? is i am anity awkward guy that is more than i ame on paper

in person. i would give anything if we could do this interview by e-mail. >> i would never know it. >> i would be more charming and likable if i could just get a couple of drafts. >> you seem open about your struggles with addiction and where are you with that journey? years. past april was 13 it was a struggle. i lost 10 years of my life to cocaine addiction. i don't take anything for granted. it is easier now with 13.5 years time.n now and the last you arey does get -- done. you're always aware. one call to your dealer away from ruining your life.

i will tell you, being a father for me is the great hedge against that. >> you talk about your fears of not being able to write if you weren't on drugs. >> i have plenty of quirks. i go to an office early in the morning and it is really good writing time. i take anywhere from six to eight showers a day. you are not exaggerating. >> i'm not exaggerating. it has nothing to do with germs. it is all about a fresh start. well, start going again. take a shower, put on different close. you will feel refreshed. >> is it hard sober, is it better? >> i don't care if it is harder or better. i should be dead seven times by now.

of course, i'm not. tobe it would be easier write with coke and maybe i would write better with coke. and writing well is so important advantage there is no i wouldn't give myself except that. i talked out loud all the time. >> what about movies? moviessuperhero greenlighted time after time. is that depressing? >> there is a lot of anything, some of it will be better than others. the cousin there is also great -- because there is also great movies.

think i could ever write one because i don't know how. they are what is paying for the smaller movies, the more grown-up movies. with steve jobs, i can say that this is the first time i have felt at the end of the script that i wrote exactly the movie i wanted to write. ♪

you're working on a steve jobs movie. >> we will start shooting in a couple of months. danny boyle who directed slum dog millionaire, 120 seven hours, trainspotting, is directing. it is not a cradle-to-grave biopic where we do a survey of his whole life. we are doing something else. i am very excited about it.

>> is it still three long scenes? >> i wish i hadn't let that cat out of the bag. so i will take this opportunity to try to make up for it. no. it's not. it's a traditional biopic. it's what we call a cradle-to-grave structure where we survey his entire life. there have been so many books written about steve jobs, there has been another movie. why do you think there is more of the story? >> i think you could do 10 more movies about steve jobs and you could line up writers and get 10 different movies. all of them worth going to see. >> did you meet steve jobs? >> i spoke to him three times. the first time he called me is because i gave the interview.

he called me to thank me for saying that and asked me if he could send me -- they were coming out with a new laptop. let me send you this thing and just play around with it. me, itond time he called was to invite me up to the bay area. and the third time he called me was to ask for help with his commencement addresses. >> you helped him write that? >> honestly, i fixed a couple of typos. >> i was there that day. my sister was graduating that day. it was beautiful. >> i don't want to suggest for a moment that any of those thoughts were my thoughts. that was the brain of steve jobs and i helped him.

>> how hard is that to bring to life? i'm not putting any pressure on you. pressure i feel when i'm not writing anything. top with a little on pressure. so many people have so many strong feelings. i spent a lot of time with the other seven characters who are in the movie. joanna hoffman. the head of marketing on the mac team. john scully was the ceo of apple for firingfamous steve jobs from apple. in this movie,er

jobs has conflicts with all of them. very dramatized and a compressed and claustrophobic environment. , one of the more interesting relationships is with his daughter. you spoke with steve jobs. did you ever speak to mark zuckerberg? we met with senior facebook people and said we are doing this movie, would you like to cooperate in the making of this movie. badly wanting them to say no, which is what they did. we need them to say no because if they did cooperate, the integrity of the movie would be compromised. the movie i think human eyes tim and away. if you were over 35, you thought

it was a cautionary tale. if you are under 35 he thought it was a rock star that did what had to be done to achieve his dreams. i don't think anyone would be comfortable with a movie being made about who they were when they were 18 to 20 years old. and i thought mark was an incredibly good sport about it. >> would you have changed the way you wrote the character? >> i've never written anything where i would like to have it back and better. i haven't really seen the movie since it came out. i don't like to visit these things. we made the movie that we wanted to make and it came out well. jobs, the rest of the world may not agree.

but this is the first time i felt at the end of the script the movie i exactly wanted to write. get from my head to the piece of paper in tact. could write your own ending to the aaron sorkin story, how do you want to be remembered? quacks being my daughter's father, and then there is everything else. i have been involved in some things that are well-liked and in therned their place zeitgeist and in the pop-culture. would be very depressed if i thought i'd already written the best thing that i'm going to write. i still want to write the best thing. you son sorkin, thank

much. it has been an honor and a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you so much. ♪ . .

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