Latest John Ridley Quotes from Interviews

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• Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

  John Ridley

  Drama, Degrees, Television

  Source: collider.com

• I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

  John Ridley

  Wings, Today, Okay

  Source: collider.com

• I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

  John Ridley

  Different, Want, Way

  Source: collider.com

• When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

  John Ridley

  Real, Character, Doors

  Source: collider.com

• There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

  John Ridley

  Knowing, Special, Together

  Source: collider.com

• Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

  John Ridley

  Police, Needs, Sides

  Source: collider.com

• You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

  John Ridley

  People, Treats

  Source: collider.com

• We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

  John Ridley

  Jobs, Police, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

• My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

  John Ridley

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

  John Ridley

  Creating, Entertainment, Emotion

  "John Ridley’s American Landscape". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

• I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.

  John Ridley

  Drama, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

  John Ridley

  Emotion, Worried, Storyteller

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

  John Ridley

  Hipster, Thinking, Looks

  "John Ridley’s American Landscape". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

• I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

  John Ridley

  Believe, Unique, Emotional

  "John Ridley’s American Landscape". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

• I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

  John Ridley

  Writing, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a teacher. I knew I wasn't good in numbers, and I knew I wouldn't work well in overly structured environments.

  John Ridley

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.

  John Ridley

  Thinking, Talking, Intellectual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com