Kenneth Lonergan Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Kenneth Lonergan:

I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

Kenneth Lonergan

I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.

Kenneth Lonergan

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

Kenneth Lonergan

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

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

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

Kenneth Lonergan

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

Kenneth Lonergan

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

Kenneth Lonergan

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

Kenneth Lonergan

'Margaret' as a creative entity is something that I'm very happy and proud of. But 'Margaret' as a professional experience was a nightmare until it was rescued by critics and people who liked it.

Kenneth Lonergan

There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.

Kenneth Lonergan

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

Kenneth Lonergan

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

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

You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.

Kenneth Lonergan

Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.

Kenneth Lonergan

Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.

Kenneth Lonergan