Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson
Rian Craig Johnsonis an American writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with his debut feature film, Brick...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 December 1973
CountryUnited States of America
scripts bricks
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
stars war fans
Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.
dirty kind belgrade
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
long sketching scene
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
grandmother way sound
In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
emotional ideas use
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
kids piano like-you
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
wise thinking stories
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.
people bricks boards
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
mom son men
I saw a mom who would die for her son, a man who would kill for his wife, and a boy angry and alone, the bad path laid out in front of him. I saw it, and the path was a circle, round and round. So I changed it.
thinking doe tools
Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
thinking looks faces
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.
my-favorite
All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
drama people safety
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.