Edward Kitsis Quotations

Belief is so important in everything. You need to believe in magic. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe in your family.

In all life, there are the people that are right for you, and there are the people that are wrong for you, and then there are the people that you just choose.

'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.

'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom.

The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.

My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or the 'Planet of the Apes' TV show.

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.

That's the tricky line we walk. You want to give them answers and keep them intrigued.

You get to see your stuff made. It's just like, 'Wow, I wrote this a week ago and now I'm seeing it.' It's unbelievable what you can do in three days in TV.

At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little nervous, she just went, 'So Claire comes back? You just ruined it for me!' To this day, my wife refuses to hear anything about 'Lost.' She just wants to watch it.

It's the perfect show to write on because you get to do everything. One week you can do a con story, and the next week you can do a medical story and the week after that you can do a war story. You can be funny and serious in the same episode. As a writer, it's just been the most amazing opportunity.

It's like a marriage, literally. I spend more time with Adam than with my wife.