How to Write Great Dialogue with Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, television writer, actor, television producer, and film director. Aaron Sorkin’s screenwriting credits include The Social Network, A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Molly’s Game. Sorkin started acting before discovering his passion for screenwriting. This passion started when his parents took him to watch plays as a child and Sorkin loved listening to the dialogue. That's why his screenplays are now known for being dialogue intense, The Social Network is an example of this. In 1992 A Few Good Men was released to the big screen, making Aaron Sorkin a major Hollywood player in the film industry.

Few screenwriters are as good at writing screenplay dialogue as Aaron Sorkin. Here is a screenwriter who listens to the characters he is creating in a screenplay instead of telling them what to do. So please -

Don't tell your characters what to do or say. Let them tell you.

Over to the man ....