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Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun.
I was a musical theater kid in high school.
I grew up having a sense of who Luke Skywalker is.
Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.
All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.
'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.
'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'
You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
As to whether Luke is the 'Last Jedi,' they say in 'The Force Awakens' he's going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke is the last Jedi.
The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.
The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.
If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.
With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.
For me, I was entirely focused on 'Episode VIII' and having this experience, and now I'm just thinking of putting the movie out there and seeing how audiences respond to it.
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.
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.
Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There's always wiggle room in these movies - everything is from a certain point of view - but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi.
'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.
Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.
Rather 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.
I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids. Suddenly, you were standing in the real thing. There's this rush of unreality about it.
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.
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.
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.