Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then … - Damon Lindelof

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Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.

Damon Lindelof

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird. ' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

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I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.

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Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

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