Collected Meditations
Showing 11 quotesWe subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.— Lisa Joy
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Sympathy
For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the way that I approach direction. There might be a theme within the visuals that you're choosing that people don't consciously pick up on, but that they feel.— Lisa Joy
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Poetry
When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.— Lisa Joy
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Poetry
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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Nature
What's so bad about Google knowing I need Kleenex? Look at it in the aggregate - see how information... can be used to target people based on their profiles and change the course of human history, as I believe it is already beginning to do. This knowledge that I need Kleenex has bigger complications than just needing Kleenex.— Lisa Joy
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Knowledge
When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.— Lisa Joy
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Imagination
The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.— Lisa Joy
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Health
The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.— Lisa Joy
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Experience
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