Famous Quotes

"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."

Rian Johnson on Teen

More quotes about Teen

• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

  e. e. cummings on Teen

• "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

  John C. Maxwell on Teen

• "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

  Johnny Depp on Teen

• "As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

  Fran Lebowitz on Teen

• "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

  Bryan White on Teen

More quotes by 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.'"

• "I 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."

• "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."

• "Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way."