Film Quotes by Rian Johnson

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

— Rian Johnson

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes…

— Rian Johnson

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

Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small…

— Rian Johnson

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those…

— Rian Johnson

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

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

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for…

— Rian Johnson

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

I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they…

— Rian Johnson

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

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and…

— Rian Johnson