Rian Johnson quote: "Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way."

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away wi...
RIAN JOHNSON

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust...
RIAN JOHNSON

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' the...
RIAN JOHNSON

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge wit...
RIAN JOHNSON

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious t...
RIAN JOHNSON

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you'...
RIAN JOHNSON

Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it...
RIAN JOHNSON

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it ...
RIAN JOHNSON

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ...
RIAN JOHNSON

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the ...
RIAN JOHNSON

I played well. I ran to the ball and made a couple plays. The first game I didn't have any (mental e...
RIAN WALLACE

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON

Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksg...
MONICA JOHNSON

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who ju...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
ZACH JOHNSON

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to ge...
ZACH JOHNSON

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we real...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get t...
ZACH JOHNSON

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And some...
ZACH JOHNSON

I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to ca...
ZACH JOHNSON

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west s...
ZACH JOHNSON

Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot...
ZACH JOHNSON

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course h...
ZACH JOHNSON

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwe...
ZACH JOHNSON

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, conten...
ZACH JOHNSON

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what...
ZACH JOHNSON

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a ...
ZACH JOHNSON

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted...
ZACH JOHNSON

I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opp...
ZACH JOHNSON

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great m...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, a...
ZACH JOHNSON

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to se...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of ...
ZACH JOHNSON

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go...
ZACH JOHNSON

I like to look good on the golf course.
ZACH JOHNSON

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
SHAWN JOHNSON

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

I don't care if I never see Texas again.
RAFER JOHNSON

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the ...
RAFER JOHNSON

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us yea...
RAFER JOHNSON

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
RAFER JOHNSON

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
RAFER JOHNSON

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that ...
RAFER JOHNSON

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
RAFER JOHNSON

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey prog...
RAFER JOHNSON

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opport...
RAFER JOHNSON

Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
RAFER JOHNSON

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them ...
RAFER JOHNSON

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the m...
RANDY JOHNSON

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have ...
RANDY JOHNSON

I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and g...
RANDY JOHNSON

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a f...
RANDY JOHNSON

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me...
RANDY JOHNSON

When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
RANDY JOHNSON

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was...
RANDY JOHNSON

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I ...
RANDY JOHNSON

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've got...
RANDY JOHNSON

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
RANDY JOHNSON

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
RANDY JOHNSON

People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at...
RANDY JOHNSON

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
RANDY JOHNSON

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I&#...
RANDY JOHNSON

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to m...
RANDY JOHNSON

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that y...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
WENDELL JOHNSON

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
WALTER JOHNSON

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe W...
WALTER JOHNSON

You can't hit what you can't see.
WALTER JOHNSON

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course an...
JACK JOHNSON

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
JACK JOHNSON

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
JACK JOHNSON

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
JACK JOHNSON

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
JACK JOHNSON

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love...
JACK JOHNSON

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
JACK JOHNSON

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
JACK JOHNSON

Don't let your dreams be dreams.
JACK JOHNSON

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there wo...
RON JOHNSON

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life i...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the ci...
RACHEL JOHNSON

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because t...
RACHEL JOHNSON

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don'...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really ...
RACHEL JOHNSON

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like...
RACHEL JOHNSON

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right...
RACHEL JOHNSON

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answer...
RACHEL JOHNSON

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the ch...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of h...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thru...
RACHEL JOHNSON

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you beh...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
RACHEL JOHNSON

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis...
RACHEL JOHNSON

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, es...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, ...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an...
RACHEL JOHNSON

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see wh...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of th...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' the...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband co...
DAKOTA JOHNSON

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
NANCY JOHNSON

Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles ...
NANCY JOHNSON

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But ...
NANCY JOHNSON

How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almo...
NANCY JOHNSON

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It ma...
NANCY JOHNSON

No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. ...
NANCY JOHNSON

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
NANCY JOHNSON

Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a c...
NANCY JOHNSON

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
GARY JOHNSON

Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally...
GARY JOHNSON

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to goi...
GARY JOHNSON

At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it wa...
GARY JOHNSON

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alco...
GARY JOHNSON

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
GARY JOHNSON

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty an...
GARY JOHNSON

I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good gover...
GARY JOHNSON

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosop...
GARY JOHNSON

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the be...
GARY JOHNSON

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this br...
BORIS JOHNSON

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the fals...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

He who praises every body, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administra...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours....
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at th...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organizatio...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your c...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might b...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON

(Surrogacy) just felt right for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON

In one phone call, you're whole life changes. We dropped the whole baby thing. Thankfully I was at t...
AIMEE JOHNSON

I don't even know how to say thank you for what their family has done for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON

There was a 50 percent chance that one would even take and I think less than a 5 percent chance that...
AIMEE JOHNSON

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and pe...
DUSTIN JOHNSON

When that development agreement was approved, the city extracted $1.5 million from the developer. Th...
AL JOHNSON

Her grafts are doing fine. She's home; she's walking around with oxygen. She's doing pretty darned g...
AL JOHNSON

You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do someth...
AL JOHNSON

Most linebackers try to hit you and then go around you. Trotter tries to run right through you. And ...
AL JOHNSON

I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.
AL JOHNSON

I'm not going to get any bigger, but there have been some pretty good centers who were smaller than ...
AL JOHNSON

You know it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice...
AL JOHNSON

Our coaches put us in a great scheme, and when we thought they were going to blitz, we checked into ...
AL JOHNSON

To be a leader you don't have to be captain, but Dan is both. He wants everybody on the same page an...
AL JOHNSON

Prostitution has been going on for quite a while,
AL JOHNSON

We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good orde...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investme...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

Rian Johnson

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