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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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

From Kenneth Lonergan

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

From Kenneth Lonergan

I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

From Kenneth Lonergan

I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

From Kenneth Lonergan

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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

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.

From Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan

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