Kenneth Lonergan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Art #Pain #Communication
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Growing Up #Teenager #Kids
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Home #Atmosphere #Different
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Hero #Home #Play
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Character #Adults #Flaws
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Assuming #Mets
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Writing #Ideas #Caught
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Television #Tvs #Grew Up
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#People #Needs #Able
There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Mean #Impact #Years
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.
-- Kenneth Lonergan

#Real #Teenager #Fighting

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