The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins, — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
My role is to support it, protect it to the extent that I can, and encourage it. I have a regular job in New… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening. — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening,… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
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… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
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… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
