Top 26 Quotes by Rian Johnson

About Rian Johnson

These are some quotes by American author Rian Johnson Writer, who was born on December 17, 1973.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

Rian Johnson

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

Rian Johnson

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

Rian Johnson

Writing is not fun.

Writing is not fun.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.

Rian Johnson

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

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.

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.

Rian Johnson

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

Rian Johnson

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.

Rian Johnson

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