“I like writing about heroes that don’t wear capes and disguises. It’s aspirational. ‘Gee, it looks like the real world and feels like the real world, why can’t this be the real world?’ The metaphor of Don Quixote is used, all kinds of lost cities are used: Atlantis, Brigadoon … The show is meant to be a fantasy set against very real and oftentimes very serious events.”
– Aaron Sorkin, talking to “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross, about some of the criticism that has plagued his new HBO show, “The Newsroom.”
