If action scenes just happen decontextualized, they lose their weight and the viewer can feel they don’t make sense and that they wouldn’t have happened that way. Lisa Joy Read Quote
One of the many delights that I found in directing was that you plan so many things so meticulously so that they go smoothly. But you also have to leave time and space for spontaneous emotional moments to arise. Lisa Joy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I’m trying to start my own kind of movement. Lisa Joy Read Quote
For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain. Lisa Joy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I grew up in Asia, and I remember as a little kid being in Taiwan watching films there and being so awed by these new worlds of entertainment. Lisa Joy Read Quote
