Lorne Michaels Quotes

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

Talented people are restless at their core.

When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Everybody blows their first money.