Rian Johnson Quotes

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

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

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

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 of it.

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

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

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.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

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

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

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 it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."