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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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
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Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
