I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
I’ve done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years – and such an embarrassing one as well. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
I know there are some actors who won’t switch their accents off when they’re on set and like to be called by their character’s names. That works for them, and that’s great. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
There are a lot of elements when you’re writing, or when I’m writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
I think ‘Manchester’ is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won’t let him go. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
Very often what will happen between actors is that they’ll develop kind of a ghost relationship in real life that reflects their relationship on screen or in the play that they’re doing. In fact, I’d say that happens almost every time. I don’t know why that happens, but it seems very common. Kenneth Lonergan Read Quote
