How many of us have these demons or habits or things we don’t like about ourselves and understand the loops that we’re in and yet are unable to break out of them and create lasting change within ourselves? Lisa Joy Read Quote
We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step. Lisa Joy Read Quote
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star. Lisa Joy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s nowhere that looks like Singapore; it’s absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level. Lisa Joy Read Quote
You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble. Lisa Joy Read Quote
Holding women to the idea of ‘write what you know’ subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who we are. But it’s also a chance to celebrate who we could be. Lisa Joy Read Quote
I didn’t need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who’s a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists. Lisa Joy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn’t ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn’t ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature. Lisa Joy Read Quote
