As we began working toward the finale of ‘Lost,’ I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
If you go to a movie and it’s a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it’s over, that your time with these characters is finished. There’s almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of ‘Lost.’ Carlton Cuse Read Quote
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with ‘Titanic.’ Carlton Cuse Read Quote
I think that ‘Lost’ is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don’t support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
I didn’t know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
If we lived in a time where people couldn’t watch ‘Lost’ on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn’t necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn’t have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
There is a natural progression to ‘Lost,’ and as the story goes forward, it’s going to change. It’s not a static story. The franchise of ‘Lost’ is not characters sitting on a beach. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
Lost’ is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered. Carlton Cuse Read Quote
That’s one of the reasons why ‘Lost’ has to end: because we can’t sit around and envision, ‘What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?’ It doesn’t realistically exist. Carlton Cuse Read Quote