Aaron Sorkin on ethics, the perils of writing about real people and Steve Jobs as a world ruler

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated February 6 2016 - 9:08am, first published January 29 2016 - 11:45pm
Michael Fassbender in <i>Steve Jobs</i>.
Michael Fassbender in <i>Steve Jobs</i>.
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs. Photo: Francois Duhamel
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs. Photo: Francois Duhamel

Aaron Sorkin is a busy man. He has time only for an interview on the telephone from the car taking him to Heathrow Airport; he volunteers to carry on our conversation once he has landed in Los Angeles but, to no surprise of mine, that call never comes. This is the kind of round-the-clock, minute-to-minute way of doing business made possible – or, arguably, forced on us – by modern technology. By people like the late Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and Sorkin's most recent subject.

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