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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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.
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All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.
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Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
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With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
