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Kenneth Lonergan [1962-0] American

Rank: 103
Playwright

Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Art, Communication, Movies

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Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.	Art, Communication	101
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.	Movies	102
There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.		103
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.		104
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.		105
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.		106
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.		107
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.		108
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.		109
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.		110
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.		111

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