Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit,… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 something for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
