Essentially, There's No Scientific Evidence Whatsoever That

Hire People You Get Along With, And Then Let Them Do What They Do Best.

My Gravestone Will Say,'here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

If You're The Guy Who Basically Shows Up With Coal At The Locomotive, They Will Put It In The Train. Like, They Won't Even Assess Whatever Or Not It's Good Coal. Just Throw It In There.

I Stand By The Lost Finale. It's The Story That We Wanted To Tell, And We Told It. No Excuses. No Apologies. I Look Back On It As Fondly As I Look Back On The Process Of Writing The Whole Show. And While I'll Always Care What You Think, I Can't Be A Slave To It Anymore. Here's Why: I Did It For Me. I Liked It. I Was Good At It. And I Was Really … I Was Alive.

I Think One Of The Problems In Determining The Ending For A Television Series Is That You Don't Know How Long The Show Is Gonna Last. Particularly Because We Were In The Unique Position Of Adapting Tom's Perrotta Novel The Leftovers, It Always Felt Like The First Season Was Gonna End With The End Of Tom's Novel, And Then We Would Figure Things Out From There And Look Back.