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• Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.

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  Mom, Son, Boys

  "Looper". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• 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 time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

  Rian Johnson

  People, Challenges, Monkeys

  "Rian Johnson on his sci-fi film 'Looper'" by Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. September 24, 2012.

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• 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.

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  School, Adults, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Rian Johnson

  Order, Smell, Community

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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 monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

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  Thinking, Monsters, Looks

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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 think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Different

  "Rian Johnson Talks “Looper”, Bruce Willis' Voiceover, And 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. January 9.

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• Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

  Rian Johnson

  Stars, War, Fans

  "Rian Johnson, ‘Looper’ Director, On ‘Breaking Bad’ And The Problem With ‘Star Wars’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: screenrant.com

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

  Rian Johnson

  Games, Thrones, Incredibles

  "Rian Johnson on ‘Breaking Bad’: ‘Directing Walter White is Surreal on a Level That Directing a Movie Will Never Be’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2012.

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

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  Dirty, Kind, Charm

  "Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine" by Adams Sternberg, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2012.

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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 medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

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  Ghetto, Thinking, Get Better

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Advice

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Giving Up, Writing, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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

  Rian Johnson

  Long, Sketching, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

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  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2006.

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• When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

  Rian Johnson

  News Stories, Buttons, Pleasure

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Fixing, Time Travel, Appeals

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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

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  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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 how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

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  Years, Family And Friends, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2006.

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• I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

  Rian Johnson

  Style, Kind, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Rian Johnson

  Goes On, If I Stay, Future Plans

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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