A biography for Lisa Joyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.”
“What's so bad about Google knowing I need Kleenex? Look at it in the aggregate - see how information... can be used to target people based on their profiles and change the course of human history, as I believe it is already beginning to do. This knowledge that I need Kleenex has bigger complications than just needing Kleenex.”
“Another writer might question whether you're feeling competitive. But if I talk to Jonah, I know that he truly values my success more than his own. And I truly value his success more than my own. There's a generosity there.”
“A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.”
“I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.”
“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.”
“The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.”
“I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.”
“I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.”
“I log on and there are so many cookies embedded in my computer - it's like they know what I need before I do.”
“There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.”
“I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.”
“There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level.”
“Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.”
“You have to be very specific with the suggestions of how you want to show things, not just with dialogue but also place and mood. I write all of that as very vivid guidelines so directors can come in and do what they will with them.”
“You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.”