146 Quotes by Damon Lindelof

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

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

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.

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

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

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

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.

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

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.