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My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

- Rian Johnson
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'Star Wars' was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing with the toys in your backyard, that's where you're first telling stories in your head.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

I'm just randomly wandering around the Walt Disney studios making pew-pew sounds, trying to direct people, and nobody listens to me anymore. I'm turning into a Force ghost. It's a strange feeling.

Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun.

It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me actually writing you have to strike something inside, you have to hit a power main to get the energy. You have to strike something you care about.

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My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.