Kenneth Lonergan

“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.”

“The creative process on 'Margaret' was incredibly satisfying. I loved the cast; I had a great time writing the script. I liked making the movie. Believe it or not, I actually like editing the movie. It was all the rest of it that was such a nightmare.”

“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.”

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

“There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”