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Lisa Joy

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Lisa Joy reflects on the striking look of a skyscraper and how it can feel beautiful. She talks about college debt, her childhood dream of writing, and how she prepares a lot for big projects. She also mentions that Westworld flips the story to make us feel for the robot hosts.

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Lisa Joy is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and lawyer. She is best known as the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of the HBO science-fiction drama series Westworld (2016–2022). For her work on the series, she received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Joy's

Quotes by Lisa Joy

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

Child

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We drive a Tesla.

Drive

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

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There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'

Coincidence

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America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

America

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There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Beauty

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It's wonderful to work with actors we haven't worked with before.

Actor

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

Hero

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Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.

Dreaming

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It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

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I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

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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 would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things…

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For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

Experiences

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I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Body

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I log on and there are so many cookies embedded in my computer - it's like they know what I need before…

Computer

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I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

Absinthe

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I try not to look at press. However, I have a mother, who will gladly tell me what's going on out there.

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Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled…

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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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If action scenes just happen decontextualized, they lose their weight and the viewer can feel they don't make sense and that they…

Action

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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…

College

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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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Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who…

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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…

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For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who…

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The most damaging part of pervasive bias, whether it's implicit or complicit because sometimes it can be well-intentioned, is when that bias…

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And I think the greatest danger that AI poses isn't so much these anthropomorphic beings who look like us and are beguiling…

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Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in…

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What's so bad about Google knowing I need Kleenex? Look at it in the aggregate - see how information... can be used…

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

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You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.

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The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

Health

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The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

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I feel like there is just never a good time for taking a chance and following your dreams - whatever those dreams…

Chance

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I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

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We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.

First step

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I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

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I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

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Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.

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