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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.
Kenneth Lonergan -
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
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It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
Kenneth Lonergan -
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 -
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Kenneth Lonergan -
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.
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 think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.
Kenneth Lonergan
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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.
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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 -
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
Kenneth Lonergan -
I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
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 -
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
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I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
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Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.
Kenneth Lonergan -
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 -
I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.
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 -
There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.
Kenneth Lonergan
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The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.
Kenneth Lonergan -
To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.
Kenneth Lonergan -
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.
Kenneth Lonergan -
I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
Kenneth Lonergan