146 Quotes by Damon Lindelof

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

I love collaborating with different people.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

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.