Lorne Michaels Quotes

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.

I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

I don't take anything personal.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

I can't get mad about peoples' opinions, I always say that. That's their opinion. They got every right to say or think whatever they want to say and think. And whatever they say and think don't affect my life.