Bryan Bishop interviewed writer and director Rian Johnson for the Verge, and it’s good. If you’re not familiar with Johnson’s work, he wrote and directed Brick and two excellent episodes of Breaking Bad. Johnson’s latest movie is Looper, which will be released later this month.
Here’s Johnson on 3D movies:
Anytime anyone makes the “it’s more like real life” thing, I don’t know. Maybe it is. I haven’t seen it. And Cameron has seen it, and he’s James Cameron. I don’t want to dismiss it, because it could very well have merit, and it could be a great tool to be used by people. Personally, I’m not sure when you go into a theater that the ultimate aim is to have real life right in front of you. It’s to have something beautiful put in front of you. It’s the reason why a Van Gogh painting of a flower can be so much more emotionally impactful than a photograph of a flower.
He’s a very intelligent, very talented, and very humble guy. Follow him. He’s going to do great things.