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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We subverted the entire premise of ‘Westworld’ in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts. Lisa Joy Read Quote
If you play a game like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ you don’t go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood. Lisa Joy Read Quote
Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I’d wait until my parents fell asleep, and then I’d sneak into the bathroom, turn on the light, and dig out the books and read all night. Lisa Joy Read Quote
Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan. Lisa Joy Read Quote
Nobody ever has a problem if a man writes a woman. I wanted to be able to say, ‘Well, I can write your men and your action, too. You don’t just have to give me the love scenes, which I don’t even think are my strong suit.’ Lisa Joy Read Quote
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. Lisa Joy Read Quote
