Filmmaking Is Finding A Piece Of Granite

Rian Johnson's 'looper' Is Inventive, Entertaining, And Thought-provoking In Every Way A Movie Can Be. It Is In Fact The Kind Of Movie That Reminds Us Why We Watch Them And Make Them, A Beautifully Told Story That Deserves To Be Not Only Remembered, But Acknowledged For Its Writing.

And I Certainly Like Being On A Plane, Next To A Stranger, Having Conversations That You'd Never Otherwise Have. You're Unplugged, Your Phone Doesn't Work, You're Not Online.

Most People Are Nostalgic In A Way That They're Fond Of The Past, But They Still Are Happy That They Are Where They Are Now. You Know, When You Say, 'oh, High School Was This Or That,' You Don't Want To Go Back. No Matter How Much You Loved High School, You Don't Want To Actually Be Back In High School. I Certainly Wouldn't.

People Want To Know If I Have A Moral Standpoint That They Should Be Picking Up On, And The Truth Is, I Don't. I Don't Want People To Think That I'm Trying To Tell Them To Feel A Certain Way. I Think That's Cheap Filmmaking.

I Used To Have A Group Called Bad-movie Saturday. Every Saturday, Six Of Us Would Go See The Worst Movie That Came Out Each Weekend. It'd Be Noon In Burbank. It Was Just A Running Commentary. All Executives - We Would Each Talk Through The Movie And Make Jokes.