Quotes by Kenneth Lonergan - Page 2

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Idols
Upset
Attack
Confront
Discover
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Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "Listen, I think it's really good." And he'll say, "You sure? You sure? There's not some other way we should try it?"
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Electrical Power
Thinking
Trying
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I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Destroyed
Grieving
Manchester
Life Love People
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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.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Break Up
Events
Fighting
Melodrama
Real
Suffering
Teenager
Life Walk Yourself
Attached
Life Is A
Scores
Teenagers
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I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Apartment
Broke
Girlfriend
Melodrama
Nice Person
Remember When
Response
Time Me Remember
Chain
Tendency
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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?
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Compression
Dramatic
Real Life
Life Time Enough
Life Time Real
Enhanced
Event
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The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Good Day
Grieving
World
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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.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Ghost
Real Life
Life Time Relationship
Reflects
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I trust my judgment when I think it's boring, dull, tepid and not interesting. That's important to listen to. And the same on the set. That's a little easier because you can see it in front of you and you can just see how great they are and you know you have something wonderful when they do something wonderful.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Important
Interesting
Thinking
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I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Discrepancies Between
Real
Years
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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 / Playwright
Inspiring
Moving On
Bootstraps
Isolated
Recovering
Sentimental
Pull
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I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Feet
Thinking
Writing
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I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Art
Ideas
Writing
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