Lorne Michaels Quotations

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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

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.

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.