“Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones ...” — Damon Lindelof Quote

“Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.”

“I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.”

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

“I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.”

“With cinema it's a different ballgame, you really don't know how the audience will react, so one has to tread carefully.”

“Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.”