Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live, and producing the Late Night series, and The Tonight Show...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
blow firsts
Everybody blows their first money.
mother running uncles
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.
thinking voice originals
I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
air people dresses
When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
powerful class play
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
thinking way now-and-then
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.
knowing worry getting-older
One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
people risk nerves
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.
people restless core
Talented people are restless at their core.
nice focus important
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.
people injustice whole-life
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.
zoos laughing people
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.
wheels sometimes turns
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
looks rooms persons
If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room