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
good guarantee
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.
creativity writing lines
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.
eye
You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
people creative way
The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins,
thinking healthy way
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.
community strategy consumerism
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
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.