Rian Johnson Quotes

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?'

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

I'd love to direct more.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.