I 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 JohnsonI really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
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 JohnsonThe critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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