Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley
Zuckerberg is flat-out wrong in his assertion that Hollywood doesn't understand people building something just because they like building things.  I'm quite sure he's right when it comes to some people in Hollywood, possibly even many of the most powerful people.  But I'll bet that what gets a great writer like Aaron Sorkin up in the morning is the same kind of creative impulse that drives hackers.  Sorkin is a hacker - just in a different medium.None of which is to say that Sorkin's portrayal of Zuckerberg is at all accurate.  In the West Wing, Sorkin once wrote: "You think I think that an artist's job is to speak the truth [but] an artist's job... is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention."  I think he's quite right, but it's a heck of a philosophy if you're making a movie about someone still living.