LORNE MICHAELS: BOOK OF QUOTES
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ABOUT LORNE MICHAELS
Lorne Michaels CC is a Canadian-American television producer and screenwriter best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live (since 1975) and producing the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995) and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
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QUOTES SAMPLES
âTo 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.â
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âPeople 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.â
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âGod knows there has been a lot we could have done in the last six weeks. That tends to get written in the last two days.â
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âMy role is to support it, protect it to the extent that I can, and encourage it. I have a regular job in New York, which takes most of my time.â
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âArtists are figuring out ways to get noticed, wherever that is. And if something's good, it just travels so fast now.â
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âThe only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.â
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âSometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.â