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