14 DAY TRIAL // Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin agreed to do an interview with Bloomberg TV to talk about his upcoming biopic of Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder who started the personal computer revolution in the ‘70s.
In the interview, Sorkin suggests that there’s no shortage of words when it comes to writing about the life of Apple’s visionary: “I think you could do ten more movies about Steve Jobs. And I think if you lined up ten writers, and said ‘write a movie about Steve Jobs,’ you’d get ten different movies, all of them worth going to see.”
Asked whether or not he’d ever met Apple’s CEO in person, Sorkin says he had three phone conversations with the man, one to be handed a Mac for testing, one to take a tour of Pixar’s HQ (which isn’t clear if he ever did), and one to proofread Jobs’ famous commencement speech at the Stanford University. Sorkin says he only fixed a couple of typos in that speech and doesn’t want any credit for how it turned out.
Later in the interview, Sorkin reveals that he takes between five and seven showers each day, changing his clothes just as many times. He says it helps him start anew whenever his writing doesn’t go as well as he wants it to.
