Damon Lindelof Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.”
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“I've always been really interested in the future, and I feel like all of the movies that I've been exposed to, over the course of the last 20 to 30 years, have shown me a future that I don't really want to be living in.”
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“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.”
-- Damon LindelofSource : "Lost's Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2008.
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“At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.”
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“You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the middle of Season 4, Episode 5 of Lost. It's like picking up a Harry Potter book and flipping to a chapter. You have to read it from beginning to end.”
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“For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.”
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“Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.”
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“Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.”
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“One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.”
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“Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they're never happy no matter what they get.”
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“I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me.”
-- Damon LindelofSource : "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.
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“I don't think it's hubris for me to say I'm a Trek fan. So, I don't treat Trek fans as somebody who's separate than I am. The only thing that separates them is, I'm one of the people responsible for the story in this movie and they're not. But we're all Trek fans. I can hang.”
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“I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."”
-- Damon LindelofSource : "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.
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“When you're a writer and you're a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you.”
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“Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.”
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“As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.”
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“I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”
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“I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.”
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“In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.”
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“My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?”
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“Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.”
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“I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.”
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“I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.”
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“I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.”
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“The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.”
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“I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.”
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“When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.”
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“There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.”
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“I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.”
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“The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.”
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