That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
Rian JohnsonYou come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
Rian JohnsonThe 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.
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