68 Quotes by Rian Johnson

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

'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.

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.

I grew up having a sense of who Luke Skywalker is.

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.'

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

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.

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.