146 Quotes by Damon Lindelof

His house has become a mecca for all the other actors. He opens the door for everyone to come over on Sundays.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you’re going to make mistakes.

In television, I don’t feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

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.

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.

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.

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

I’m not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I’m like, “There’s a glass?”

I don’t think anybody wants to see a dour ‘Star Trek’ movie.