Rian Johnson Quotes
Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
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I only make movies to finance my fishing.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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I think I'm the most private out of my family.
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We're still talking about women's rights. We can't be the greatest country in the world. I think once we lose that illusionary veil of thinking that we are, we can face the problems and really try to fix them.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
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I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.
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Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
