List of Damon Lindelof Quotes

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.

Just Put Your Best Foot Forward And Hope For The Best. You Also Have To Acknowledge That You're Going To Make Mistakes.

If You're Constantly Hamstrung By Worry That People Aren't Going To Like It, You Can't Do Your Job.

I Think One Of The Problems In Determining The Ending For A Television Series Is That You Don't Know How Long The Show Is Gonna Last. Particularly Because We Were In The Unique Position Of Adapting Tom's Perrotta Novel The Leftovers, It Always Felt Like The First Season Was Gonna End With The End Of Tom's Novel, And Then We Would Figure Things Out From There And Look Back.

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.

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.

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.

I Place A Higher Value On Work Ethic Than Talent, Because, In Certain Areas, You Just Need To Cast, You Need To Cast Actors With Talent, You Need To Hire Directors With Talent, But I've Worked With Very Talented People Who Have A Poor Work Ethic, And The Outcome Is Less Desirable Than People Who Are Less Talented And Have An Incredible Work Ethic.

Lost Is A Mystery Show, So I Think That Would Be Stripping The Franchise Of Sort Of Its Essential Nature.

At Some Point, You Can't Take A Risk Just To Take A Risk Because That's A Betrayal, In And Of Itself.

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.

For Us, There's An Inherent Process When You're Ending Something To Be Thinking About The Beginning, As Writers.