Top 60 Damon Lindelof Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Damon Lindelof

2. “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.”

— Damon Lindelof

3. “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.”

— Damon Lindelof

4. “If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

6. “I’m not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I’m like, “There’s a glass?””

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

8. “I always remember liking school.”

— Damon Lindelof

9. “There is no suspense in inevitability.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

11. “My gravestone will say,’Here Lies Damon Lindelof – Or Does He?”

— Damon Lindelof

12. “I love collaborating with different people.”

— Damon Lindelof

13. “My father – until the day that my dad died – didn’t know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.”

— Damon Lindelof

14. “As a storyteller, you also don’t want to make people feel like they’re left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

16. “I think ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there’s not really that deep of a mythological construct.”

— Damon Lindelof

17. “Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.”

— Damon Lindelof

18. “The year that ‘Lost’ started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.”

— Damon Lindelof

19. “I don’t think it’s hubris for me to say I’m a Trek fan. So, I don’t treat Trek fans as somebody who’s separate than I am. The only thing that separates them is, I’m one of the people responsible for the story in this movie and they’re not. But we’re all Trek fans. I can hang.”

— Damon Lindelof

20. “Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.”

— Damon Lindelof

21. “Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.”

— Damon Lindelof

22. “Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there’s a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.”

— Damon Lindelof

23. “I’ve always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

25. “One person’s magical thinking is another person’s cynicism.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

27. “When you’re a writer and you’re a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you.”

— Damon Lindelof

28. “When I saw ‘Blade Runner,’ my understanding was that ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ were sequels to each other – or they were related. They were set in the same world.”

— Damon Lindelof

29. “I’m not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”

— Damon Lindelof

30. “I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don’t like me, I will obsess over it – and try to change my personality until they like me – even if they don’t like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they’re strangers.”

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

32. “Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they’re never happy no matter what they get.”

— Damon Lindelof

33. “I’ve always been really interested in the future, and I feel like all of the movies that I’ve been exposed to, over the course of the last 20 to 30 years, have shown me a future that I don’t really want to be living in.”

— Damon Lindelof

34. “I’ll never be immune to criticism, and that’s okay, and I’m very comfortable with that.”

— Damon Lindelof

35. “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.””

— Damon Lindelof

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

— Damon Lindelof

37. “I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I’ve always wanted to tell stories.”

— Damon Lindelof

38. “For us, there’s an inherent process when you’re ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.”

— Damon Lindelof

39. “In television, I don’t feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.”

— Damon Lindelof

40. “I’ve always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.”

— Damon Lindelof

41. “Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn’t to say that there can’t be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.”

— Damon Lindelof

42. “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.”

— Damon Lindelof

43. “I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I’m already in.”

— Damon Lindelof

44. “The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.”

— Damon Lindelof

45. “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.”

— Damon Lindelof

46. “If you’re constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren’t going to like it, you can’t do your job.”

— Damon Lindelof

47. “When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it’s a platform for instantaneous response.”

— Damon Lindelof

48. “From my own internal fanboy perspective, there’s nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it’s shown me the entire movie.”

— Damon Lindelof

49. “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.”

— Damon Lindelof

50. “I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.”

— Damon Lindelof