Lisa Joy Quotes

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.

There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

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

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying message. I think we're in a place right now where everyone is really frustrated, and there's a lot of hate in the world and a lot of bullies and bigotry. Having the opportunity to get rid of that would be amazing. I wish that I could write down a whole concept, rather than a specific name. Rather than kill somebody, I'd like to write down "evil" in the notebook. That would be fantastic!

People don't think of themselves as evil.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.