aaron sorkin was a huge influence on my life. there is not a more unique style than aaron sorkin.hes 17 when i started on west wing. david mamet i got to do a play of his on broadway, a whole different style of writing. i have such a huge respect for writing. something i cannot do. i can text. i am very good at texting, but i cannot write. people love to do improv and that kind of thing. to get to try different things for me has been helping me so much as an act or are to have scope to what i can do. i have such respect to every one of them for different reasons. >> i want to get back to this new project about the character you play. -- >>s i play detective i play a detective. i am 5'3". i. i do not look like i can take down a perpetrator. elisabeth moss -- elisabeth tavis: i was in a conversation. she was barely five foot tall. here she is taking all these people, and she is diminutive. if harriet tubman can take freedom. that is all i am saying. >> that is what i would like to do. we are very similar in our work for humanity. i guess height has something to do with it. robin gri

because it's aaron sorkin. >> jimmy: wait a minute, you may be the only actor in history you realizeo not write you too many lines. >> i said, would you take it easy on me? because you know, it's aaron sorkin and it's -- they get mad if you skip an uh. >> jimmy: oh, they do. >> or the. >> jimmy: i see. >> so i said yeah, just take it easy on me. and about two or three days out a new script came in. and they had changed a bunch of lines and gave me a speech. >> jimmy: great. >> great. so i ended up going to work. and i mean, i couldn't get these words in my head. and i had -- i had probably the worst actor nightmare that i -- i'm 38 years old, i've been doing this since i was 18, i have never seen an actor go down so hard. >> jimmy: like you did? >> yeah. it was -- >> jimmy: on the set? >> it was terrible. >> jimmy: in front of the -- >> in front of jane fonda, sam waterston. >> jimmy: excellent. >> at one point i knew it was so bad that marcia gay hargd, oscar winner marcia gay harding was holding me by the arms and she was going, when you say petition you mean -- and she was just tr

found was lawrence lessig co-founder of creative commons net neutrality advocate a proponent of aaron sorkin's work why do you think a transparency advocate was invited to one of the most secretive policy summit of the year. well i think it has to do with his base knowledge in technology the fact that he is a pretty big head over at ted talks and like you said it is very interesting you know he is written books railing against the united states and its policies within congress and basically how money runs our government and that is the truth so i think on one hand they want to get an inside inside look into somebody's mind that basically profiteers up dissent and i like that personally but also to possibly compromise this person to say look we like what you do maybe we can work on some of these issues but these issues are a little bit too taboo we're not going to be able to help with those we'd like you to help by you know basically promoting the idea that the older brother isn't a consortium of the global elite isn't eating to plan out the world and unfortunately all we're left is accusation

found was lawrence lessig co-founder of creative commons net neutrality advocate a proponent of aaron sorkin's work why do you think a transparency advocate was invited to one of the most secretive policy summit of the year. well i think it has to do with his base knowledge in technology the fact that he is a pretty big head over it ted talks and like you said it is very interesting you know he is written books railing against the united states and its policies within congress and basically how money runs our government and that is the truth so i think on one hand they want to get an inside inside look into somebody's mind that basically profiteers up dissent and i like that personally but also to possibly compromise this person to say look we like what you do maybe we can work on some of these issues but these issues are a little bit too taboo we're not going to be able to help with those we'd like you to help by you know basically promoting the idea that the older brother isn't a consortium of the global elite isn't eating to plan out the world and unfortunately all we're left is accusation

>> >> i think that aaron sorkin is.alented writer, but he would be more if he actually portrayed things as they were. >> accurately. >> opposite dew on his program. i have two questions, too. why does everybody talk like this in his television shows?es why is the lighting so dark? >> yes. >> why are the lights alwaysthis off, greg? >> i don't know. it was he i like social network. that was that movie. i he can be good. >> hand to ows? >> it went down the toilet. >> they wish they had a toilet. >> exactly. the only thing occupy wallll street has in common with the arab spring is the violent attitudes towards women andin rapes that happened. >> lack of hygiene. >> it's ridiculous the way theye glorified it. exactly, what is the tea party guilty of? free speech? wanting smaller government? notot wanting an out of control irs? >> could i just jump in here? bad news for jim carey fans.d n "dumb and dumber 2" has been canceled. it was originally supposed to be the next sequel. but because of carey's lagging career, perhaps be

i think that -- you know, we also see -- just a continuing in the media fight, aaron ross sorkin, i would like to have greenwald write this. i-found that interesting because -- a, you know, he is thinking -- you are an assassin or somebody that takes yourself too seriously. to say greenwald somehow -- i don't know, drove snowden to the airport so he could catch a flight to hong kong or fly the next plane to havana, the bottom line is had a sorkin should be looking at his own newspaper which leaked information about iranian spy program. >> speaking of airplane flights, media jump order that flight to havana from moscow and -- snowden was supposed to be and he wasn't there. >> he wasn't on and were tweeting. abc producer tweeting. you wonder -- day of -- budgets for media, dwindling, how much did that cost us for a no show? >> one point, at least -- my point. if we may think better of greenwald as a talking head, however, snowden's image as a spy, as somebody that clearly has been event leapt feelings towards the united states continues to grow. >> the president is saying, oh, this guy is n

>> in the show, i think what aaron sorkin does so well is that he, with that pace that he's got, withhat dialogue, it's like a verbal car chase. and whether you know it or not, he's grabbing you and pulling you in and really dragging you through, and you're trying to keep up with us. >> i was just remembering the very first episode begins with your character unloading on a journalism graduate student, and i just -- i think anyone in any profession where they feel like the idealism that brought them into hollywood or into journalism is outweighed by the cynicism they've acquired along the way could relate to that explosion. i wonder if you think that that scene has a lot to do with people staying for the ride, to see that side of your character? >> that also was in the pilot, first episode, first season, and it was five minutes in. so america is sitting there with the remote, do i stay with this or not? and then aaron comes through with this speech of which the second half is i don't think we're the greatest country in the world anymore, but we could be. and here's what the idealistic,

i just wanted everyone to remember that real life is not like an aaron sorkin fantasy. is at least a chance to reverse this under democrats there's no chance under republicans. do you want everything that you've loved the past few years to go away. you make this one issue give the psychopaths back control of every seat of the house. in the senate, in the presidency. >> stephanie: i hear you honey. 29 minutes after the hour. right back here on "the stephanie miller show." young turks! i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air>>> i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air>>> you got to go to the local level, the state level and we