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Damon Lindelof
American
Writer
Born:
Apr 24
,
1973
Good
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
Damon Lindelof
Day
You
Father
Innings
Nine
Say
Touchdown
Could
Points
He
Know
Until
Sport
How
Were
Died
Many
Dad
Baseball
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
Damon Lindelof
Work
Day
You
Sometimes
End Of The Day
Thought
Sense
Down
Think
Way
Drawn
Out
Window
Crossword
Throw
Put
Puzzle
Feel
New
Like
Does
Real
Ambiguous
End
Times
Cracked
York
Same
Just
Rewarding
New York
Want
New York Times
Storytelling
Certain
Requires
Certain Level
Hard
Level
All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
Damon Lindelof
Great
You
Wish
Be Careful
Sci-Fi
Careful
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
Me
Change
People
Human Being
Personality
Try
Will
Nothing
Strangers
Say
Would
Obsess
Over
Over It
Like
Until
Human
Being
Flaw
Reasons
Even
Fatal
Need
I always remember liking school.
Damon Lindelof
Remember
School
Liking
Always
I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
Damon Lindelof
Love
Creative
Finding
New
Partnerships
Continuing
Then
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof
You
Matter
Way
Says
Tell
Find
Voice
Idea
Cliched
Sounds
Anybody
Story
Then
Original
Original Idea
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
Good
Science
Between
Science Fiction
Line
Fiction
Really
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.
Damon Lindelof
Myself
Me
Pretentious
More
Look
Attracts
Talks
Sound
Effective
Than
May
Being
Screenwriter
Expert
Storyteller
Storytellers
Really
Ted
Presented
The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
Damon Lindelof
Thoughts
You
People
Thought
Lost
Own
Community
Immediately
Out
Seek
About
Fact
Soon
Over
Opinion
Understand
Bread
Form
Episode
Your
Show
Express
Element
Butter
Interpretive
Need
There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
Damon Lindelof
Life
God
You
Word
Whatever
Believe
Living
Some
Between
Force
Call
Behind
Want
Whether
Use
Reason
Beings
Mechanism
My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
Damon Lindelof
Will
Say
Lies
He
Does
Here
I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
Damon Lindelof
Time
Remember
Pure
Lost
Thinking
Other
Else
About
Weeks
Like
How
Doing
Than
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Then
Really
Engage
Creatively
Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
Damon Lindelof
You
Nice
Other
Worship
Say
About
Guy
Writers
Supposed
Michael
Just
Nice Things
Things
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
Damon Lindelof
Love
Will
Feeling
Clothes
Stage
Out
Frauds
Admire
Writers
Pushed
Share
Emperor
Idea
Call
Revealed
Lot
Friends
Which
Whom
Fundamental
When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
Me
Hurts
Says
Someone
Something
Go
Really
When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
Damon Lindelof
Beauty
Twitter
Interview
Says
Response
Someone
Something
Instantaneous
Platform
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
Damon Lindelof
Ending
Think
Rings
Trilogy
Construct
Mythological
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Very
Really
Deep
Satisfying
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
Damon Lindelof
Criticism
Okay
Immune
Never
Comfortable
Very
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
Damon Lindelof
Experience
Rewarding
Dots
Connecting
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
Damon Lindelof
Good
You
Half
Gave
Guess
Saw
Say
Totally
Never
Fair
Because
Audience
Always
Coming
Shocked
Them
Then
Believed
Twist
Chance
Presented
I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
Damon Lindelof
Good
Be Original
Felt
Always
Movies
Really
Should
Original
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
Damon Lindelof
Good
Mirror
Think
Ourselves
Look
Am
From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
Damon Lindelof
Me
Hate
Perspective
Three
Own
Nothing
Minute
Seeing
Entire
My Own
More
Feel
Like
Trailer
Than
Where
Movie
Internal
Shown
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.
Damon Lindelof
Home
Alien
Think
Saw
Released
See
Born
Box
Box Office
Office
Did
When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
Damon Lindelof
World
Alien
Understanding
Other
Related
Saw
Runner
Blade
Blade Runner
Were
Same
Sequels
Each
Set
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