Quotes from Damon Lindelof

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.

I always remember liking school.

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.