Lorne Michaels Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
-
If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
-
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
-
A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
-
I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.
-
One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
-
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
-
The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
-
If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.
-
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
-
Everybody blows their first money.
-
I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
-
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.
-
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
-
When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
-
One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
-
When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
-
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.