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 JohnsonI think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.
Rian JohnsonThe critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
Rian JohnsonWith 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Rian JohnsonAll of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.
Rian JohnsonRather 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.
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.
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