Latest Damon Lindelof Quotes from Interviews

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• I felt like if I said something positive on Twitter, it got no play. But if I said something negative on Twitter, it was a billion retweets and so that was giving me a Pavlovian response to be mean, and I don't want to be mean. We all have mean thoughts. They should not be broadcast on Twitter. You don't need to see mean things.

  Damon Lindelof

  Mean, Giving, Negative

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 24, 2017.

• Ultimately, I just felt like Twitter brought out the worst in me. It made me super defensive when I was attacked, because you're under a constant state of attack. No one should be able to check their @ mentions, because Twitter is the equivalent of "Hey, those three people over there that are whispering... They're whispering about you! Do you want to know what they're saying?"

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Worst

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 24, 2017.

• I can't live my life under the sort of "I cannot fail" philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels more inevitable than me being perfect all the time, it's going to be soul crushing. And more importantly, I'll never take any risks.

  Damon Lindelof

  Crush, Philosophy, Perfect

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 24, 2017.

• If I went for a long period in my life where I was unemployed and I was unable to make a living and the only way for me to basically provide for my family was, "Hey, we're bringing Lost back!", then I would probably consider it. But I feel like it would be a betrayal to the fandom, and myself, to do anymore Lost, because we had such an adequate period of time to end the show.

  Damon Lindelof

  Betrayal, Long, My Family

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 24, 2017.

• It's just immensely frustrating that things like Breaking Bad get made that are kind of perfect! There's not even a bad episode of Breaking Bad, let alone a bad season. I want to be able to say, "Hey everybody, it's impossible to make a show where every episode is great!" No it's not.

  Damon Lindelof

  Perfect, Impossible, Kind

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 24, 2017.

• Everything I've ever been a fan of, whether it's Star Wars or the New York Jets, I've also been very hard on at times. It's sort of like, I go to a Jets game, I want them to win, but the minute they fumble the ball, I go, "I f**king knew it! F**king Jets!" That's part of loving something. As long as you love it, you have carte blanche to critique it as well, of course. That's part of being a fan of anything.

  Damon Lindelof

  War, Winning, Long

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

• Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. Like with Frank Miller, Batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then Frank Miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. And Christopher Nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. The idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, Character, Interesting

  "The Leftovers: Damon Lindelof On The Guilty Remnant's Fate, Missing Characters And Much More". Interview With Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 23, 2017.

• I'm trying to focus as much on the here and now as possible. To live my life in a way that the humans that I know here on the planet Earth feel like they've been treated with respect by me, whether they're people that I'm very close to or the audience who's watching my work.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Focus, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

• Finding meaning in the relationships that we have with one another - that's the only way to achieve any kind of fundamental true grace and that points to where it all ends up. It's let's stop being away some place, let's be here. It's, let's be in this.

  Damon Lindelof

  Grace, Kind, Achieve

  Source: deadline.com

• People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, World, Disappointed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

  Damon Lindelof

  Sick, Jokes

  Source: collider.com

• I think that we, as writers, get excited by risk. When we are feeling comfortable and familiar, I wouldn't say that we get bored, but the energy in the room gets flat. When we're most excited and when the show is the most fun, it's when we're duking things out.

  Damon Lindelof

  Fun, Thinking, Bored

  Source: collider.com

• If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

  Damon Lindelof

  Jobs, People, Worry

  "Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’: ‘I’m fighting for the life of the show’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 6, 2015.

• Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

  Damon Lindelof

  Mistake, Feet, Hoping For The Best

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Cynicism, Persons

  "Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’: ‘I’m fighting for the life of the show’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 6, 2015.

• I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

  Damon Lindelof

  Real, Thinking, Order

  "How to end it all". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2013.

• But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a lot more time between seasons to talk about what worked and what didn't work, and plan for the future. And the pacing of the storytelling, particularly for on-going serialized dramas, means that you don't need to do non-essential episodes, just because you have to fill this pre-existing schedule.

  Damon Lindelof

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  "Damon Lindelof Talks THE LEFTOVERS, Looking Towards Future Seasons, Comparisons to LOST, Leaving Twitter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2014.

• As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

  Damon Lindelof

  Book, People, Degrees

  "Damon Lindelof Talks THE LEFTOVERS, Looking Towards Future Seasons, Comparisons to LOST, Leaving Twitter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2014.

• Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.

  Damon Lindelof

  Drama, Years, Looks

  "Damon Lindelof Talks THE LEFTOVERS, Looking Towards Future Seasons, Comparisons to LOST, Leaving Twitter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2014.

• Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.

  Damon Lindelof

  People

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

• In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

  Damon Lindelof

  Television, Feels, Constraints

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

• Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

  Damon Lindelof

  Real, Feelings, Vacuums

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

• If you're the guy who basically shows up with coal at the locomotive, they will put it in the train. Like, they won't even assess whatever or not it's good coal. Just throw it in there.

  Damon Lindelof

  Guy, Coal, Shows

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

• If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

  Damon Lindelof

  Skins, Thick Skin, Critical

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

• Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.