Critical Quote by Rian Johnson

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

— Rian Johnson

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

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

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

— Rian Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

— Rian Johnson