Television Quotes by Lisa Joy

9 Television quotes by Lisa Joy

Lisa Joy, co‑creator of genre‑bending series, offers a compact collection of thoughts on television. The nine quotes reveal her blend of ambition and narrative curiosity, giving a quick sense of her viewpoint.

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At first, 'Westworld' was a project we had declined to do.

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We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

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I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

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The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or…

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What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that…

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In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind…

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You know, both my parents aren't really from this country, and the emphasis was really on education and studying, and TV seemed…

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When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition…

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But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a…

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There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

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I don't see much of myself in the traditional Western hero.

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I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly…

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One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others…

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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

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Working on 'Westworld' has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV timeline with…

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I've tried to always be incredibly overprepared in everything that I've done.

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We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

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One of the many delights that I found in directing was that you plan so many things so meticulously so that they go smoothly.…

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I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

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The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So…

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We drive a Tesla.

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The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and…

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No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never…

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I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

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