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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. — Damon Lindelof

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I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale. — Damon Lindelof

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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism. — Damon Lindelof

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Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do. — Damon Lindelof

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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future. — Damon Lindelof

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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. — Damon Lindelof

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I always remember liking school. — Damon Lindelof

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

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

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?' — Damon Lindelof

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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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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

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People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever. — Damon Lindelof

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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 Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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'. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world, — Damon Lindelof

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I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?" — Damon Lindelof

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I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really ... I was alive. — Damon Lindelof

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There is no suspense in inevitability. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver. — Damon Lindelof

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If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself. — Damon Lindelof

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A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes. — Damon Lindelof

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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport. — Damon Lindelof

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I love collaborating with different people. — Damon 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. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?' — Damon Lindelof

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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?' — Damon Lindelof

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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale. — Damon Lindelof

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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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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 Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof

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For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for. — Damon Lindelof

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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in. — Damon Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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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 Lindelof

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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. — Damon Lindelof

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Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they're never happy no matter what they get. — Damon Lindelof

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Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature. — Damon Lindelof

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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie. — Damon Lindelof

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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

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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland. — Damon Lindelof

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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof