Kenneth Lonergan's Quotes
Born: 1962-10-16
Profession: Playwright
Nation: American
Biography of 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.
Tags: Able, Describe, ThemselvesI grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
Tags: Bit, Movies, TelevisionI 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.
Tags: Movies, Writing, WrongI was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Tags: Assuming, Everyone, JewishFilmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
Tags: Art, Human, PainI wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
Tags: Hero, Home, ThoughtI'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.
Tags: Home, Somewhere, TroubleLittle 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.
Tags: Become, Past, YourselfTeenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.
Tags: Fight, Life, YourselfThere'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.
Tags: After, Big, Means