Star Wars’ was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing with the toys in your backyard, that’s where you’re first telling stories in your head. Rian Johnson Read Quote
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it’s the most serious time of your life. Rian Johnson Read Quote
I’m just randomly wandering around the Walt Disney studios making pew-pew sounds, trying to direct people, and nobody listens to me anymore. I’m turning into a Force ghost. It’s a strange feeling. Rian Johnson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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’ve done, I’ve ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that’s made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. Rian Johnson Read Quote
With ‘Brick’ there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with ‘Brothers Bloom’ there was a really strong Fellini influence – both those movies wore that on their sleeve. Rian Johnson Read Quote
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. Rian Johnson Read Quote
