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" There are a lot of elements when you're writing, or when I'm writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way. "

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" I 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. "

Kenneth Lonergan

Desk

Thought

Home

" 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. "

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

" I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me. "

Kenneth Lonergan

Think

Seen

" I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' "

Kenneth Lonergan

Encounters

Third

" 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. "

" Very often what will happen between actors is that they'll develop kind of a ghost relationship in real life that reflects their relationship on screen or in the play that they're doing. In fact, I'd say that happens almost every time. I don't know why that happens, but it seems very common. "

" I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life? "

" 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. "

" If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it. "

" 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. "

" 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

Realize

Television

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

" I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great. "

Kenneth Lonergan

Character

Know

" Filmmaking, 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. "

" I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back. "

" 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

Remember

Teenagers

" Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone. "

" I'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. "

Kenneth Lonergan

Always

Trouble

" I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium. "

" Teenagers 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. "