“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.” ThinkingLittlesStillsFilmQualityHighestArgumentAvailableNostalgiaMediumsGet BetterDigitalCaptureGhetto Author:Rian Johnson
“Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsLittlesDifferentRealGrowingTroubleHarderHopefullyPushingWowNew ThingsPush Yourself Author:Rian Johnson
“There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.” PeopleIfsLittlesStillsBitsAudienceRiskDramaLittle BitSafetySurpriseGenreSci Fi Author:Rian Johnson
“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.” ThinkingWorldLittlesRealFictionConceptsScience FictionInstanceReal WorldSci FiBeing RealTime TravelOutlandish Author:Rian Johnson