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Since time immemorial we've explored these ideas of tragedy, the things people do for love, the great weight that occurs when love is taken away and the great length and the heroism that people will exhibit to fight for the ones that they love.
- Lisa Joy
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#Love Is
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The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.
- Lisa Joy
#Health Insurance
#Health
#Humanities
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.
- Lisa Joy
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#Long
#Matter
#Poetry
#Time
A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.
- Lisa Joy
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#Children
#Family
#Step
#Work
I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.
- Lisa Joy
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#Go
#Harvard
#Law
#Like
One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.
- Lisa Joy
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#Human
#Others
#Qualities
#Thing
The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.
- Lisa Joy
#Brakes
#Create
#Doing
#Drive
#Technology
But I'm the child of a tiger mom.
- Lisa Joy
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#Mom
#Tiger
Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.
- Lisa Joy
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#Experience
#Memories
#Past
#Way
You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.
- Lisa Joy
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#Human Nature
#Nature
#Noble
You know, both my parents aren't really from this country, and the emphasis was really on education and studying, and TV seemed like it was not the best use of my time for my parents. So ironically, of course, I rebelled completely and now it's how I make a living.
- Lisa Joy
#Best
#Country
#Education
#Parents
#Time
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
- Lisa Joy
#Body
#Human
#Immortality
#Myself
#Way
We drive a Tesla.
- Lisa Joy
#Drive
#Tesla
The most damaging part of pervasive bias, whether it's implicit or complicit because sometimes it can be well-intentioned, is when that bias gets internalized and women start self-centering and stop thinking that they're incapable of achieving what they want and achieve empowerment.
- Lisa Joy
#Achieve
#Bias
#Start
#Thinking
#Women
Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.
- Lisa Joy
#America
#Because
#Home
#Mom
#Taiwan
#Up
You have to be very specific with the suggestions of how you want to show things, not just with dialogue but also place and mood. I write all of that as very vivid guidelines so directors can come in and do what they will with them.
- Lisa Joy
#Dialogue
#Mood
#Place
#Want
#Will
Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires can improve and become more sophisticated. Sometimes there's a disconnect between that. My car can drive, but we can't get rid of violence.
- Lisa Joy
#Car
#Drive
#Find
#Sometimes
#Violence
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.
- Lisa Joy
#Kid
#Possible
#Think
#Wanted
#Writer
And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.
- Lisa Joy
#AI
#Fiction
#Science Fiction
#Science
I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions.
- Lisa Joy
#Noble
#Opinions
#Powerful
#Right
#Sure
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
- Lisa Joy
#Behind
#See
#Stillness
#Through
#Work
There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level.
- Lisa Joy
#Aesthetic
#Beautiful
#Level
#Singapore
There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.
- Lisa Joy
#Beauty
#Kind
#Skyscraper
I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'
- Lisa Joy
#Dating
#Memory
#Relationship
#Remember
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