Lorne Michaels Quotations

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

To 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.

People 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.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young to be that severely beaten up. So we're letting her come back.

She knows that she should come back when she feels up to it. I don't have any idea when that will be.

God 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.

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

My 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.

You can tell that he paid attention in that kind of detail to Prince because he admired him that much. He comes from the place of a fan.

Too early to say, but more than likely.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns turns.

A 'Saturday Night Live' credit might look good on his resume!

It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.

It's been dying since the second season. It's always about reinvention.

Artists are figuring out ways to get noticed, wherever that is. And if something's good, it just travels so fast now.

If she's good, it'll be good for her career. If she's not, then it won't be good. One thing: I can guarantee it will be live this time.

His comedy doesn't come from a place of anger. He's got a kind of sweetness to him.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins,

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

Everybody blows their first money.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Talented people are restless at their core.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.