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Rian Johnson

American Writer

Born: Dec 17, 1973

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I grew up having a sense of who Luke Skywalker is. Rian Johnson

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Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There's always wiggle room in these movies - everything is from a certain point of view - but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. Rian Johnson

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing. Rian Johnson

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I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess. Rian Johnson

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The overwhelming reaction on set was everybody loved the porgs. And I love 'em, so you know what? I get it if people are a little wary of cuteness in the 'Star Wars' universe, but I personally love them, and I think they have their place in the movie. Rian Johnson

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. Rian Johnson

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm. Rian Johnson

Kind Charm

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

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I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. Rian Johnson

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'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week. Rian Johnson

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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

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

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For me, I was entirely focused on 'Episode VIII' and having this experience, and now I'm just thinking of putting the movie out there and seeing how audiences respond to it. Rian Johnson

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I'm just randomly wandering around the Walt Disney studios making pew-pew sounds, trying to direct people, and nobody listens to me anymore. I'm turning into a Force ghost. It's a strange feeling. Rian Johnson

Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun. Rian Johnson

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