American - Writer | April 24, 1973 -
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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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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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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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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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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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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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'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.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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