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. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
I personally don’t need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
Truthfully, and I don’t mean to sound naive, but I don’t know that much about the film business. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated – like, if you can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That’s a shame. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there’s nothing funny about them, but they’re rare, and they don’t last all that long. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it’s the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the – the inverse or the reverse is true for drama. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don’t find that to be very funny. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
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. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
You’re thinking about the physical consequences about what you’re writing if you’re going to direct it. If you’re not going to direct it, then it’s somebody else’s problem, and they’ll solve it. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There’s all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don’t know how to do. I didn’t come from a film background. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
