Top 31 Lonergan Quotes

#1. Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,

Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #77972
#2. The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #84325
#3. Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "Listen, I think it's really good." And he'll say, "You sure? You sure? There's not some other way we should try it?"

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #201581
#4. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #201862
#5. Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #254018
#6. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #436396
#7. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #677990
#8. I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.

Colin Callender

Lonergan Quotes #710043
#9. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #719297
#10. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

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#11. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #776193
#12. For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #846002
#13. I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #888176
#14. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #900649
#15. I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #912410
#16. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

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

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1030110
#18. Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

Bernard Lonergan

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#19. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1080219
#20. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

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#21. 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.

Kenneth Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1176443
#22. Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.

Bernard Lonergan

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#23. To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

Bernard J.F. Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1253839
#24. I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Kenneth Lonergan

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#25. There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

Kenneth Lonergan

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#26. Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Bernard Lonergan

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#27. You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks ... although the latter is much less realistic.

Kenneth Lonergan

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

Kenneth Lonergan

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#29. In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

Bernard Lonergan

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#30. No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1748012
#31. One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

Bernard J.F. Lonergan

Lonergan Quotes #1825778

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