Rian Johnson Quotes
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Quotes to Explore
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
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I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
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Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
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From Ennio Morricone I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
