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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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Damon Lindelof
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: April 24
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Television Writer
Damon Laurence Lindelof
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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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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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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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I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
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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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One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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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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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.
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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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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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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.
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In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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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.
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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.
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Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
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I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty I'm like, There's a glass?
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I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
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Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.
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