Rian Johnson Quotes

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

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• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Something
  • Policy
  • Become

• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Something
  • Feminism

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Every religion there's something foul going on.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Religion
  • Something
  • Going

• When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Government
  • Something

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Done
  • Past
  • Interesting

• The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Boring

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Political
  • Interesting

• I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Know

• With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • You
  • Something
  • Unknown

• Disagreement is something normal.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Something
  • Disagreement

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I’m running for President to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. And based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Friends
  • America

• Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • She

• If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • History

• If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Interesting
  • Something