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Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-writing Gangs of New York (2002), and for writing and directing You Can Count On Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). Lonergan earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Director for Manchester by the Sea, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for You Can Count On Me, Gangs of New York, and Manchester by the Sea, winning for the latter at the 89th Academy Awards. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for Manchester by the Sea at the 70th British Academy Film Awards.

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I think the more dangerous and dire the political circumstances seem, the more you attach value to anything that shows you why a human being is a human being or human experience or view of the world in that way.

Circumstances, Political, Shows, Thinking, Views, Way

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.

Growing Up, Kids, Shown, Teenager, Things

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

Comfortable, Enough, Intimacy, Littles, Rough, Take

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.

Atmosphere, Different, Disorienting, Home, Town

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.

Able, Like, Needs, People, Told

When you're a man, you're often in situations where you have to decide how far you're going to go in an argument. How big is the other guy? All this stuff that girls don't have to worry about as much, because that's not part of the equation.

Big, Girl, Girls, Man, Men, Worry

I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.

Fast, Feet, Good, Stick, Thinking, Writing

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.

Fighting, Real, Sort, Teenager, Teenagers

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

Adult, Adults, Character, Flaw, Flaws

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Assuming, Everyone, Met, Mets, Nearly

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

Couple, Enough, Thinking, Times

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.

Hero, Home, Play, Thought

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, Communicate, Communication, Human, Pain

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Actors, Like, Want, Way, Work

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it. " And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great. " Unless it's clearly there.

People, Say, Sorry, Takes, Want

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.

Caught, Ideas, Like, Nothing, Quite, Writing

There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Cut, Cutting, Helpful, People, Show, Years

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

Grew, Grew Up, Television, Tvs, Watching

I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.

Differences, Real, Same, Universe, Years

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the room, you can draw them outside into the desert, you can take them out into the ocean, you can do all these amazing things.

Amazing, Audience, Desert, Ocean, Room, Rooms

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