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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The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
