Words matter. These are the best Damon Lindelof Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
I saw myself as a teacher’s pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher’s pet, but that didn’t mean that I was trying to pull one over.
My gravestone will say, ‘Here Lies Damon Lindelof – Or Does He?’
I always remember liking school.
‘Star Wars’ is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. ‘Star Wars’ is not about our future.
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.
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it’s easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience’s trust.
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
I love collaborating with different people.
I’m not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
I’ll never be immune to criticism, and that’s okay, and I’m very comfortable with that.
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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.
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, ‘Am I good?’
Michael Arndt, that guy – you’re just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
I’ve always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, ‘I saw that coming.’ And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don’t have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn’t fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
When I saw ‘Blade Runner,’ my understanding was that ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ were sequels to each other – or they were related. They were set in the same world.
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation – and potentially controversy.
I think that ‘The Shield’ was a phenomenal series finale.
I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I’m already in.
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.
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force – like The Force in ‘Star Wars’ – where it doesn’t matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it’s a platform for instantaneous response.
I think ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there’s not really that deep of a mythological construct.
Essentially, there’s no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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.
I’ve always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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.
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.
I’ve always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
