Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Rian Johnson - Page 2

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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