Lisa Joy Quotes

I don't really believe in evil at all.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

The beauty of working on a show like 'Westworld' is we're painting a not-too-distant future and talking about an aspirational sense of what power looks like in the future.

I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted 'Westworld' to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.

So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers to me. So my interest is in the big questions more than it is in storytelling.

The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.

There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'

I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.