Rian Johnson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

  Rian Johnson

  Fun, Liars, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Editing, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2006.

• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Way, Like You

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Want, Fool

  "Rian Johnson talks 'Looper', Bruce Willis' voiceover, and 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. January 9, 2013.

• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Notebook, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

• The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

  Rian Johnson

  Giving Up, Writing, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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