The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it. — Rian Johnson Copy Share
It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids.… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest. — Rian Johnson Copy Share
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… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy,… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.' — Rian Johnson Copy Share
As to whether Luke is the 'Last Jedi,' they say in 'The Force Awakens' he's going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what… — Rian Johnson Copy Share
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