Rian Johnson Quotes
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
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My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
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Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?
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I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.
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It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.
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What, like Harpic?
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To be great is to assume great concerns.
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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
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You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
