Rian Johnson Quotes
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
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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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You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
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It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
