Latest Rian Johnson Quotes from Interviews

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

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  Goes On, If I Stay, Future Plans

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

• 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."

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  Thinking, Fool, Just One

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

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

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  Order, Smell, Community

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

• I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

  Rian Johnson

  Letting Go, Long, The End Of The Day

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

• Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.

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  Memories, Ideas, Able

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

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

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  Fun, Liars, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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  Writing, Way, Like You

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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  Interesting, Something Interesting, Ifs

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

• 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.

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  Style, Kind, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

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  Eye, Listening, Moments

  Source: deadline.com

• 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.

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  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Advice

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Giving Up, Writing, Editing

  Source: collider.com

• When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.

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  Writing, Editing, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Long, Sketching, Scene

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

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  Notebook, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

• 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 a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.

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  Wise, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.

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  Drama, People, Safety

  Source: collider.com

• 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