Rian Johnson Quotes
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.
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It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
