Damon Lindelof Quotes

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

If I'm saying something with an intelligent background, then at least it is creating conversation. Whether that conversation is people agreeing or disagreeing, I'm happy.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations - whether that is positive, negative, indifferent - just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again.

My job is to generate discussion.

I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Make the paper interesting.

But I guess as long as I'm here, we might as well talk a little politics.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.