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
writing want fool
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.
ghetto thinking get-better
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.
interesting ifs something-interesting
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
notebook writing years
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.
scripts bricks
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
dirty kind belgrade
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
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.
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.
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.
fixing time-travel appeals
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
fun liars writing
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
letting-go long the-end-of-the-day
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.
goes-on if-i-stay plans
It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.