Quote by Rian Johnson
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which hig

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 its the most serious time of your life. – Rian Johnson

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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. – Rian Johnson

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Hopefully with each thing that you do youre learning something, youre growing, and youre pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think youd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didnt feel like Oh, wow. I feel like Im doing something a little different this time. – Rian Johnson

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Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like Primer or 12 Monkeys, Looper is not about time travel. Its 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. – Rian Johnson

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Im pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. Its so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and youre like, Oy! Its the same thing again! – Marla Sokoloff

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I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, Id want to set it in a place that was familiar to me – Manhattan, where Id grown up – and Id model the characters on myself and my friends. – Cecily von Ziegesar

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I found my niche as a character actor, and Ive never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. – Vincent DOnofrio

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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. – Rick Springfield

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If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, Im sort of screwed. Im going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time. – Ken Jennings

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