Rian Johnson Quotes

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• I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture…
• All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
• Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
• Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.
• In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
• My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
• Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
• The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
• Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.
• With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
• You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end…
• You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
• Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in…
• Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively,…
• 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 or another. So…
• I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies…
• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your…
• I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They…
• I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or…
• I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It…

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