Rian Johnson Quotes
There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
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Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
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People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.
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I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
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What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
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I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.
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Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
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There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.
